Akeneo PIM to Shopify Connector
Description
Ideatarmac's Akeneo to Shopify data connector is a cloud-based middleware, which enables, facilitates, and manages the data flow between Shopify and Akeneo. Besides its two interfacing layers which is used to integrate Akeneo PIM with Shopify, it contains a core connector unit to convert, process, and edit the exchanged data. Depending on the e-commerce retailer’s requirement a custom set of functionalities can also be addressed
KEY FEATURES
1. Ready to be used within minutes.
2. No coding skills are required to install or operate the connector.
3. Flexibility to customize the connector based on your requirements.
4. Ability to review the data before importing it into Shopify.
5. Schedule custom imports to Shopify by using Advanced filtering options.
6. Akeneo to Shopify in a completely automated way with options to connect to multiple Akeneo instances or multiple Shopify sites from the same connector.
7. This connector works with both Shopify and Shopify plus.
DETAILED FEATURES
Please refer following feature list for all the features that are part of the current version of the Connector:
Data transfer between Akeneo PIM CE/GE edition and Shopify
- Import of following product attributes from Akeneo into Shopify
- Identifier
- Price
- Text
- Text area
- Number
- Boolean
- Date
- Simple Select
- Multi-Select
- Image
- Locale based values
- Site based values
- Import of Akeneo categories into Shopify collection
- Multiple category trees
- Categories with translated labels
- Import of Product properties into Shopify
- Categories at product level
- Enabled/Disabled product status
- Import of Product model into Shopify
- Products with 1 level variation
- Products with 2 levels of variation
- Same shopify ID used for updates to variations
- Simple select list as attribute type as variation axis
- Import of Product model properties into Shopify
- Categories at product model level
- Categories at product model level
Data transfer between Akeneo PIM EE/Serenity edition and Shopify
- Import of image assets at product level into Shopify.
- Import of image assets at product model level into Shopify.
- Both media (binaries) and media links for Asset attributes are imported from Akeneo into Shopify
- Assets can be imported per Site into Shopify
CONTACT US
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Release notes
Plugint-Data Connector v. 1.1.0 Release Notes
Introduction
Release 1.1.0 of the Plugint-Data Connector includes primarily features to map Akeneo specific basic data structures with Shopify. It should enable a Shopify merchant to import products and product models and their corresponding categories, attributes, images and image assets from Akeneo into Shopify.
Release Date
01.06.2021
New Features
Data transfer between Akeneo PIM CE/GE edition and Shopify
- Import of following product attributes from Akeneo into Shopify
- Identifier
- Price
- Text
- Text area
- Number
- Boolean
- Date
- Simple Select
- Multi-Select
- Image
- Locale based values
- Site based values
- Import of Akeneo categories into Shopify collection
- Multiple category trees
- Categories with translated labels
- Import of Product properties into Shopify
- Categories at product level
- Enabled/Disabled product status
- Import of Product model into Shopify
- Products with 1 level variation
- Products with 2 levels of variation
- Same shopify ID used for updates to variations
- Simple select list as attribute type as variation axis
- Import of Product model properties into Shopify
- Categories at product model level
Data transfer between Akeneo PIM EE/Serenity edition and Shopify
- Import of image assets at product level into Shopify.
- Import of image assets at product model level into Shopify.
- Both media (binaries) and media links for Asset attributes are imported from Akeneo into Shopify
- Assets can be imported per Site into Shopify
Solved Bugs
No known Bugs.
Compatibility
Akeneo Editions:
- Akeneo Enterprise Edition (SaaS)
- Akeneo Enterprise Edition (PaaS)
- Akeneo Community Edition
- Akeneo Growth Edition
Akeneo Versions: 2.0; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 3.0; 3.1; 3.2; 4.0; 5.0
Shopify Versions: 2020-4 to 2021-4
Plugint-Data Connector v. 1.1.1 Release Notes
Introduction
Release 1.1.1 of the Plugint-Data Connector includes improvements in UI and Network Management, additional filters for Akeneo Scopes (Print and Mobile) and Product Families. Further enhancements are related to Akeneo Asset Manager e.g. compatibility to Video Assets. This Release should provide a deeper integration of Akeneo PIM with Shopify.
Release Date
05.07.2021
New Features
Data transfer between Akeneo PIM CE/GE edition and Shopify
- Import of product attribute ‘Metric’ from Akeneo into Shopify
- Import Akeneo families for product without variants
- Show Shopify custom attribute on Product Details Popup
- Network error management : capability to take over where it left
Data transfer between Akeneo PIM EE/Serenity edition and Shopify
- Import of video assets at product level into Shopify
- Import of video assets at product model level into Shopify
- Both media (binaries) and media links for Asset attributes are imported from Akeneo into Shopify
- Video Assets can be imported per Site into Shopify
- "Prefix" and "Suffix" properties for "media link" attributes
- Multiple "text" attributes for a same asset (asset metadata for SEO purpose)
Solved Bugs
No known Bugs.
Compatibility
Akeneo Editions:
- Akeneo Enterprise Edition (SaaS)
- Akeneo Enterprise Edition (PaaS)
- Akeneo Community Edition
- Akeneo Growth Edition
Akeneo Versions: 2.0; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 3.0; 3.1; 3.2; 4.0; 5.0
Shopify Versions: 2020-4 to 2021-4
Documentation
INSTALLATION GUIDE
o Install Shopify app by doing the following:
- Create a Private App in Shopify as follows
- Provide your contact details on the next page:
- Provide following access to this Shopify app
scopes-read_products, write_products, read_orders, write_orders,
read_translations, read_locales, write_translations,write_locales.
- To test your app on the store, click on select store:
- You will get a list of all stores as shown in the screenshot below and click on Install App.
- It will install App and redirect it to some pages like the below image.
- Here, you have to click on the Install unlisted app.
- Now, the App is installed successfully and you can redirect to your App
o Go to Shopify admin and click on Apps>>AkeneoConnect.
o If you are a new user then please click on “Register as a new user”
- Fill the Registration form
- One of our account managers will contact you within 24 hours to provide you your login details. Please provide them following information:
- Akeneo
- Host URL
- ClientID/Secret for authentication
- PIM username and password
- Shopify
- Host URL
- Access token which is send in header as X-Shopify-Access-Token
- and the shopify shop should have these access scopes-read_products,write_products,read_orders,write_orders,read_translations,read_locales write_translations,write_locales
- Login into the app using above credentials
o If you are an existing user then please enter your login id and password:
- Go to Account Settings>>Configurations and check if all the default Shopify-Akeneo connections are properly set as provided by you
- Go to Products>>Import/Export settings and check if the default attribute mapping between Shopify and Akeneo system attributes is currently done
- Add any new Shopify custom attributes to this mapping. Please take the help of your Account Manager if you are setting it for the first time.
- Please create new custom filters by going to Products>>Import/Export
- The schedule above filters using Job schedule UI
- By default, a Full Synch and Delta Synch are scheduled to run once a week and once a day respectively.
LIMITATION
- Each variation product’s options/attributes should be consistent for an existing master product
- Predefined attribute in mapping cannot be selected as custom attributes
- Persistence for shopify product id and variant id is handled by assuming a unique mapping between sku for variant in shopify and identifier of variation product in akeneo
- A full category import is required before full, delta or custom product imports.
- If a category does not exist in Shopify but is available in Akeneo then such categories will be imported into Shopify as tags.
- Jobs can run within 5 minutes of scheduled time
- Jobs cannot be scheduled on less than 1 hour interval
- Shopify does not support storage of Images / Assets per locale basis. Therefore last imported Image or Asset will be displayed in Storefront for all locales
- Custom attributes are imported in the Shopify database. To display custom attributes in Storefront, Shopify storefront requires customization to adopt these attributes.