Shopify basic account settings

After Shopify is connected, set up the account with the following steps:

1. go to Channels -> Shopify Settings 
2. click Editnext to the relevant account

Shopify basic account settings consists of 2 sections:

• Account
• Settings

Account

The Basics tab contains general Shopify account settings.

• Account name - the internal name of the account added when connecting Shopify. Use a name that helps you identify it easily if you have multiple accounts
• Description - describe briefly the specifics of the account
• Is default account - if checked, Shopify account will be used by default on the Post operations

Settings

The Settings section contains default options defining how product listings and orders are handled:

• Integration Options:

• Export Valigara Products - check to list products on Shopify
• Import Orders from Shopify - check to fetch Shopify orders
• Delete Non-Valigara Products:
  • Checked - products on Shopify listed not through Valigara will be deleted from the Shopify catalog
  • Unchecked -  previously listed products (not listed through Valigara) will remain on Shopify

• Shopify Location for Order tracking number - for Shopify accounts with enabled Multiple Locations. Locations created in Shopify are fetched by Valigara and selected location will set product/product variation quantity on post/revise 
• Shop Language - select the Valigara language to take the values from
• Send videos as Images - check to post videos on Shopify. Valigara uses Workaround with ALT tagsto embed video URLs, since Shopify has no direct support for videos. Videos are placed last, after product images
  • Prefix - add a prefix to send a custom alt value to Shopify (f.i. PREFIXhttp://youtu.be/myvideo)
  • Suffix - add a suffix to send a custom alt value to Shopify (f.i. http://youtu.be/myvideoSUFFIX)
    • use these to prepare the alts for the Shopify front-end development
      
• Sort variations:
  
  • Alphabetically - according to alphabet
  • Valigara order - as variations appear in Valigara manager
• Skip main product in ordering (always first) - sort variations as they appear in Valigara, no matter the position of the main product
  
• Send variation images into main product
  • Do not send - variations images are skipped
  • Send 1 - single variation image is sent
  • Send all - all variations images are sent to main product
• Make unavailable instead of delete - defines Valigara behavior on product delete 

  • Checked -  Valigara keeps the product in Shopify backend and changes the "Product availability" in Online Store to NO

  • Not checked - Valigara completely removes the product from Shopify website

• Out of stock action:
  
  • Set "Out of stock" - leaves the product on site, but marks it as sold
    
  • Remove from Online store - removes the listing from storefront
    
  • Completely delete - completely deletes the product from the store
• Remove action:
  
  • Remove from Online store - removes the listing from storefront
  • Completely delete - completely deletes the product from the store 
• Create 301 redirects on product title change - if a certain product is targeted for SEO, create link redirects to this product in case its title is changed
  
• Collect product views statistics - Valigara adds a pixel to the listed product's description which collects number of views
  
• Connection Status - indicates whether the connection to the Shopify store is active. Click "Reconnect Shopify Store" to re-authorize

After setting up the Basics, add more optimization and automation: Shopify Commercial Settings Shopify Mappings Shopify metafields mappings Shopify Variations