Uploading product images and videos

Valigara offers multiple methods to upload and update product media (images and videos). You may upload using the:

• Product edit page
• Product media upload
• Excel import
• Product Images page
• Images of Selected Products

For supported formats, please refer to this page.

Product edit page

Add product images and videos using the product edit page. 

1. Go to the product Edit page
2. In Basic tab, scroll down to Media

• Upload images
• Upload videos - use Valigara media storage to host videos
• Add video URL - place URL of externally hosted video
• Add box images - click to select box image/s to add to product locally
  • set globally in Global Settings for all sales channels, or for each channel

Product media upload page

Upload product images to multiple SKUs in bulk, from multiple folders on your computer. Allowing Valigara to decide the destination according to the file / folder naming. To upload 

• Catalog -> Product media upload

Upload options:

1. Files

Match the existing SKUs to the image filenames:

• According to Y in the file name - if your file names are named SKU-1, SKU-2, SKU-3, etc, Valigara will put images in a specific position for SKU, according to their numbering (1, 2, 3) in the file
  • f.i 50443-2.jpg adds the image as a second image for SKU 50443
  • XXXX in image filename/s can be SKU or Valigara ID value/s
• Position - specifies the position for the new upload image. This applies to all images on upload. If you upload multiple images, they will be added each after another. 
• Add media to the end - useful when products have a different numbers of images. The new images are added as the last product image on the upload
• Replace existing media - newly uploaded image/s will replace existing product image/s

2. Folders

Match the SKU's in the Catalog vs the name of the folder with related images:

• To upload images, select the root directory where the XXXX folders are located, where XXXX is the SKU in the Catalog.
• The destination order is defined identically to the Files upload
• This functionality is supported by selected browsers. See the updated list here

"Show in channels" assigns the uploaded images to all/specific channels. So, if you upload images which are relevant for your Amazon store, or B2B Shopify website only ,this can be set during the upload process.

Prior to upload, Valigara checks the relevance of the uploaded files, according to their extensions. This allows you to select the source folders freely, even if they include irrelevant files (documents, archives, etc.)

Excel import

To import/update product images using a spreadsheet:

• Go to Catalog -> Products Import/Update
• Select the operation and local spreadsheet file -> Upload
  • Import - use only to add images of new products
  • Update - use to change existing product images
  • Merge - use to add new product images and overwrite the existing ones
    • Overwrite images -  available for "Update" and "Merge" operations

• Map the Excel columns to Valigara fields. (Choose an existing import formator set a new one). 
  • Use the predefined image-related Valigara fields:
    • Image channels relations - define how images should be used on the different sales channels
    • Image Links (separated by ;) - use when multiple product image URLs are contained into single cells, separated by ; in the spreadsheet
    • Single image link - use when product Image URLs are saved in separate cells in the spreadsheet
  • Import image URL into additional fields
    • map to an existing one 
    • create a New field
• Click Update to start process
• Check generated batch for results

Sample spreadsheet (Image Links (separated by ;)

Product Images page

The Product Images page displays an overview of all product media. Including product images, box images, certificate images and videos. To work with media in bulk:  

• Go to Catalog -> Product images

Select media to upload 

• click to select one or more local product images to upload to product/s
• drag and drop single/multiple image files in Tools
• click Save uploaded mediato apply changes

• Select all/Unselect all- selects all images/videos of a product. To use with image operations (System actions).

Sales channel selection

• Product images page allows you to select a sales channel to upload image to.

Certificates images are special images and can be added in Gemstones. Use Valigara Image operations to manage images in bulk