Publishing SHOPLINE Products onto Your Sales Channels

The Multichannel Connect app streamlines your product management by enabling you to duplicate products from your SHOPLINE store and publish them directly to your sales channels. This eliminates the need to recreate products manually for each channel. Follow this guide to get started.

Copying and Publishing Products to Channels

To publish SHOPLINE products to your sales channels, you'll need to complete two steps: duplication and publication. Duplicated products are saved as drafts and won't be published immediately. This gives you the flexibility to review and edit them before making them live.

Duplicating Products

To copy SHOPLINE products to your desired channels:

1. Open the Multichannel Connect app and go to Products > SHOPLINE products.
   
2. Duplicate products in one of two ways:

• • Individual Products: Click the + icon next to the desired product.
    
  • Bulk Duplication: Select multiple products and click Create channel product.
    

3. Choose the target stores for your products. If you've set up default templates for these stores, they'll be automatically applied. You can change the template options as needed.
   
   
4. Click Confirm to start the duplication process. Please note that existing products in the target channels will be skipped.

Publishing Products 

Once your products are duplicated, they'll be saved as drafts. Review and edit them as necessary before publishing:

1. In the Multichannel Connect app, go to Products > Channel products. Then, choose the channel where you want to modify and publish the copied products.
   
2. Go to the Drafts tab and use the filters to quickly find the desired products.
   
3. Edit the products if necessary:

3.1 Click on the specific product. If a template or category has not been assigned, select a template or manually add a category in the pop-up window, then click OK.

3.2 Edit the product details on the page, then click Save or Publish.

4. You can also publish products from the product list. Go to the Drafts tab and click the Publish icon for the desired products.
   
   

The Status column will show the publication status of your products. If a product fails to publish, check the reason provided and troubleshoot accordingly.

Leveraging Templates for Publication Efficiency

Multichannel Connect's Templates streamline your product duplication and publication process. These templates are tailored to different sales channels, ensuring compliance with specific rules and requirements.

Creating a Template

For example, let's look at how to create a template for your eBay products:

1. In your Multichannel Connect app, go to Templates and click Create template.
   
2. In the pop-up window, select a template type based on your needs. Currently, eBay offers two template types:

• • Category attribute template: Use this to set attributes for common product categories.
  • Business policy template: Use this to configure operational policies like payment, shipping, and returns. 

3. Configure the template settings:

• • Category attribute template: 
    • Basic information: Provide a name, select the applicable sites and stores, and check Turn on to make it the default template if desired.
    • Category information: Choose a product category, then select or enter values for the corresponding Category attributes. Add Custom attributes if needed. Finally, choose a Product status.
  • Business policy template:
    • Basic information: Provide a name, select the applicable site and store, and check Turn on to make it the default template if desired.
    • Payment information: Select the payment method. 
    • Shipping policy: Choose a shipping policy and enter details like package weight, size, item location, countries or regions, and postal code.
    • Return policy: Select a return policy.

4. Click Save to save your template.

Using Templates

You can use templates in the following ways to optimize your workflow:

• Default templates during duplication: During the product duplication process, applicable default templates will be automatically applied.
  
  
• Bulk template application: If no templates are applied during the duplication process, you can create or select one later and apply it to multiple products in bulk.
  
• Template application within product details: While editing a specific product, you can directly select and apply templates within the product details page.