What is the application

Improved Import & Export application helps you import and export products, customers, and orders from your Shopify store. You can export data into CSV, XLSX, and XML file formats, and use direct file upload or FTP location to import files.

This user manual covers import and export processes and every feature of the application, lile column mapping, and stock updates.

Improved product file format

With Firebear Import & Export Tool we have introduced the new file format for products, which allows you to more easily import and export products. The key improvements over the native Shopify files are:

  1. Possibility to import multiple images from a single cell from the Images Src column using pipe | for separating multiple images
  2. Possibility to import and create collections along with products

Multiple product images in a single cell

Most of the software uses a single cell to store multiple images of the product, that’s why we have introduced the possibility to import multiple product images from a single cell of the Image Src column instead of placing every image into a separate row or cell.

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The key takeaways for product image import:

  1. You can use a single cell of Image Src column to import all product images for the product
  2. Multiple image urls are separated with pipe | symbol
  3. Image position in the product gallery is decided by the order of the image URLs
  4. The first image inside the cell will be automatically assigned as a Title Image for the product
  5. Variant product images are still imported via Variant Image column for convenience. Each variant image belongs to a single row

Multiple product collections in a single cell import

Along with multiple images, you can import and export all product collections. Import & Export Tool adds the Collections column to the import and export files. The column contains all the collections the product belongs to separated with the pipe | symbol.

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