EZ Inventory: Using Date Variables in File Paths, URLs, and Filters

Our Shopify inventory management app, EZ Inventory, now supports dynamic date variables in the file paths, URLs, and filters.

This update provides a way to retrieve an inventory feed that uses dates in the file path or URL. The feed data can also now be filtered based on the current date.

Below is a list of the available date variables that you can use:

  • {{ YYYY }} - the current year (e.g. 2018)
  • {{ MM }} - the current …
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EZ Importer: Strict Address Validation

Recently we've tightened our validation on the billing and shipping addresses in EZ Importer. We've decided to make the validation strict because orders that have invalid shipping or billing addresses "fail silently" in Shopify. This means, Shopify imports the order successfully but they ignore the shipping or billing address you've provided.

For example, if you import an order with an address that doesn't have a country, the order will import successfully and you'll see all of the order data …

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EZ Inventory: Feed Data Filtering Now Available

We were working with one of our EZ Inventory customers recently and ran into an issue where their inventory feed contains inventory data for all their warehouses.

This wouldn't have been an issue if their store is enabled for multi-location inventory, but Shopify hasn't released this feature yet to merchants. It's currently only available for test/development stores.

In their specific case, they basically wanted to sync the inventory only from one of those warehouses in their feed with their Shopify …

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Automatically Set, Increase, or Decrease Inventory Quantity in Your Shopify Store with EZ Inventory

We've recently received a feature request from one of our EZ Inventory customers to provide a different way of updating inventory quantities in his Shopify store.

Originally, our app simply set/replaced the variant quantity in Shopify with what's provided in the inventory feed. But our customer needed a way to basically add to his Shopify inventory based on the data provided in his data feed.

We can definitely see the different use cases for this, such as if the store …

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Reduce Inventory When Importing Your Orders

We've recently released a Beta feature in EZ Importer that allows you to reduce product inventory when importing orders. This has come up a lot recently while talking with customers, and it's something we felt would be valuable.

The feature is intended for customers who are doing regular imports opposed to one time imports. At this time the feature is only available upon request. If this is a feature you're interested in please contact us so we can add you …

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