EZ Inventory: Map Products in Your Supplier Feed to Shopify Variant Metafields

There may be cases where your supplier uses a different SKU or barcode from what you use in your Shopify store.  Using Shopify Variant Metafields is a good way to track these. With this EZ Inventory update, you now have the option to map product variants in your Shopify store to products in your suppliers' feeds based on a custom variant metafield's value.

In the Data Feed settings, you can find this option under Field Mapping > Shopify Variant Field.  Select the …

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Built-in Data Feed Templates Now Available in EZ Fulfill

Today, we're excited to announce that EZ Fulfill now has built-in templates to make it easier to get started.  If you're familiar with EZ Exporter and EZ Importer, then you've had experience with our built-in template system and are probably familiar with how much time this feature could save you.

You can download the template file, which will be in CSV or Excel format (depending on the template you are using), or use the template to create a data feed.  …

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EZ Inventory Update: JSON Feed Format Now Supported

JSON data feed format is now supported in EZ Inventory!

This allows you to upload a JSON file or use a web feed/REST API endpoint that returns JSON data as a data source when updating the inventory quantity of products/variants in your Shopify store.

The JSON data just needs to have a list of products and you can specify the specific key that contains this data in the app.  If the data structure has a variants subfield, our app can …

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EZ Inventory Update: Optional HTTP Headers Setting Now Available for Web Feeds

We've recently pushed an update to our EZ Inventory Shopify app which allows our users to specify additional HTTP headers when pulling their product/inventory feeds.

A use case that came up was when one of our customer's supplier feed recently made a change to their website to require a 'User-Agent' header before the web request is accepted.  So having this option took care of the issue.

There are other use cases where being able to specify a custom header could come …

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Automatically Upload Exported Data from Shopify to Slack with EZ Exporter

We've just added a Slack integration to our EZ Exporter Shopify app.

This new integration allows merchants to export data from Shopify in CSV or Excel format and automatically upload them to a Slack channel.

If you're like us and primarily use Slack for internal communications, this could save some time from having to open another website or app to view your Shopify reports.  This is a great alternative to sending custom reports over email.

When a file is uploaded to …

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