We've recently pushed an update to our Shopify app EZ Exporter to allow our users to export their Shopify Colelctions data.

When exporting products or orders, you will now see additional fields related to "smart collections" and "custom collections."

"Smart Collections" are basically the collections where you specify a rule or set of rules to automatically add products in those collections. "Custom Collections" are the collections where you've added the products manually.

Here's a sample of what these look like …

When importing orders, with EZ Importer, many of our customers want to link the order with the product purchased. Previously the only way to do this was to map the Shopify product and variant id in the import. This can be difficult as very few customers will have the Shopify id readily available. A better solutions is to map the product to the order by the product SKU.

By default this feature is turned off because it can slow …

We've had a lot of customers ask if they could download templates after they've built their data mappings. This can make generate external data a lot easier. Whether your exporting from another system or building a set of scripts to pull your data from a database, it's nice to be able to easily create a template.

EZ Importer now allows you to download a csv template for any data mapping you've created. The template is generated by looking at the …

Some time ago, we've had a few EZ Exporter customers tell us that their suppliers need the CSV data sent to them without any special characters.

It seems that they may be using pretty old systems that only support ASCII encoding instead of the now more standard UTF-8 encoding.

With e-commerce, especially, you pretty much can't really avoid these special characters as you'll have customers buying from you all over the world. Their names might contain Greek characters or accented …

One of our customers recently contacted us to see if there's an easy way to copy the Data Settings from one Shopify store to another as they were about to create two additional stores and will need the same setup with EZ Exporter.

We can definitely see the pain point of having to re-setup all those settings as some of our customers have pretty complex CSVs with formulas and custom fields. Looking at our data, we actually noticed that …