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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

For a long time, Airtable has supported access to their API via a single API Key per account. The API Key gives full access to all the user's tables and bases.

The downside of this approach, of course, is security and key management. Some apps may just need read access, but there was no way to generate a read-only key previously. Also, if multiple apps are using the same API Key, revoking/renewing the key will affect all of them.