Learn how to push your inventory from SortSwift to your Shopify store.
Overview
Pushing inventory sends your SortSwift items to Shopify as products:
- Create Products: New items become Shopify products
- Update Existing: Updates quantities and prices for existing products
- Bulk Operations: Push hundreds of items at once
- Selective Sync: Choose specific items to push
Manual Push
Manually push items to Shopify:
- Go to your inventory view
- Select items you want to push to Shopify
- Click "Push to Shopify" button
- Review the items to be pushed
- Configure any last-minute settings (pricing, collections, etc.)
- Click "Confirm Push"
- Wait for the push to complete
- Verify items appear in your Shopify store
Bulk Push
Push large quantities of inventory:
- Select All: Use filters then select all matching items
- Batch Processing: Items are processed in batches
- Progress Tracking: Monitor push progress in real-time
- Error Handling: Failed items are reported for manual review
- Rate Limiting: System respects Shopify API rate limits
Automatic Push
Enable automatic pushing for new inventory:
- Auto-Push Setting: Enable in Shopify sync settings
- Criteria: Set rules for which items auto-push
- Staging Review: Option to review items before auto-push
- Scheduled Push: Push new items at specific times
Product Creation Settings
Configure how products are created in Shopify:
- Title Format: How product titles are generated
- Description: Include card details in description
- Tags: Auto-generate tags from card attributes
- Product Type: Set Shopify product type
- Vendor: Set vendor field
- Collections: Auto-assign to collections based on game/set
Variant Handling
How conditions and printings are handled:
- Separate Products: Each condition as a separate product
- Variants: Conditions as variants of one product
- SKU Format: How SKUs are generated for variants
- Pricing Per Variant: Different prices for each condition
Update vs Create
How the system decides to update or create:
- SKU Matching: Existing products matched by SKU
- Title Matching: Optional matching by product title
- Update Behavior: Only updates specified fields
- Create New: Creates product if no match found
Monitoring Push Operations
Track your push operations:
- Push History: View log of all push operations
- Success Rate: See how many items pushed successfully
- Error Reports: Review items that failed to push
- Retry Failed: Retry failed items individually or in bulk
Best Practice: Test pushing with a small batch of products first. Verify they appear correctly in Shopify before pushing your entire inventory.