How to bulk import product groups?
- Go to the product groups page and select Bulk Import.
- Download the import template linked from that page.
- Open it in your favourite spreadsheet editor.
- Notice there are two tabs, 1 for options, and 1 for variants.
- Keep the header row but replace the following content:
For options tab:
- Product Group - the internal name used to describe a group of products
- Option Name - the name of the option ex. Colors which will be displayed on the storefront.
- Option Type - the type of option which will determine the display of that option in the picker. Available types are Button, Dropdown, Color Swatch, or Image Swatch.
- Value Name - The name of each value in the option list ex. Red, Blue, Green - one per line with the other fields replicated.
- Color or Image - If you selected color swatch or image swatch you need to either enter the hex code for color or a link to the image hosted in your Shopify store for image.
For variants tab:
- Product Group - the same product group name as the options you just created.
- Variant Name - the combination of options and values that create a variant. Ex. if you created options for colors Red, Blue, Green and material Wood, Metal, in the first tab you will need to have mappings for Red / Wood, Red / Metal, Blue / Wood, Blue / Metal, Green / Wood, Green / Metal in the variants tab.
- Product Handle - This is the handle (last part of the url) to the product in your shopify store that you wish to map this combination to. Ex. https://seo-variants-demo-store.myshopify.com/products/the-collection-snowboard-oxygen
- If you don’t want to map a particular variant to a product and instead want that combination disabled, simply leave the product handle blank.
- Save the file as a .xlsx excel formatted file.
- Select it for import and select import.
- The import button will show as a loading, depending on the size of your import this can take some time so wait for the process to complete.
- Once completed you will either see a success message or errors explaining what you need to fix in your import template.
- Head over to your product groups section and see your new groups.