Products and Variants

Adjust how products and products with variants sync to your Shopify.

Updated over a week ago

Overview

Once Accumula is set up, most retailers don't need to change their settings. However, if you upgrade your Accumula plan or your workflow changes, you can easily update your product settings on this page. Just press the Save Settings button to save your changes.

NOTE: Changing a setting will impact updates moving forward.

Access

Apps > Shopify > Products & Variants

Settings Key:

OFF

ON

Your Accumula plan level determines access to some settings.

Products & Variants

General Settings

Name

Options (Default in Bold)

Effect

Create Products

On
Off

On = Upload new web-ready POS products to Shopify

Add All products from POS

On
Off

On = Automatically adds any POS product with a sale price greater than $0 to Shopify.

Update Products

On
Off

On = Send point of sales product updates to Shopify

Create Products in Draft Status

On
Off

On = Create Shopify products in Draft status

Off = Create Shopify products in Active status

Product Attributes

Name

Options (Default in Bold)

Effect

Update Title

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify title with new changes from the POS

Update Description

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify Description with new changes from the POS

Update Product Type

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify product type with new changes from the POS

Update Vendor

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify vendor with new changes from the POS

Update Tags

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify tags with new changes from the POS

Variant Attributes

Name

Options (Default in Bold)

Effect

Update SKU

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify SKU with new changes from the POS. Value depends on SKU Source setting.

Update Barcode

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify barcode with new changes from the POS

Update Weight

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify weight with new changes from the POS

Product Options

Name

Options (Default in Bold)

Effect

Use Product Options

On
Off

ON = Support for any name for product options.
OFF = Only Color, Size, and Third for product options

Learn more: about this setting and legacy accounts

Update Option 1

On
Off

OFF = Updates are not sent to Shopify

Update Option 2

On
Off

OFF = Updates are not sent to Shopify

Update Option 3

On
Off

OFF = Updates are not sent to Shopify

Pricing

Name

Options (Default in Bold)

Effect

Update Selling Price

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify price with new changes from the POS

Update Compare at Price

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify compare at price with new changes from the POS

Update Cost

On
Off

On = Overwrite the Shopify Cost with new changes from the POS.

Cost is updated as a part of inventory. There will be a brief delay after a variant is created before inventory and cost are populated.

Lightspeed R-series cost is sourced from Lightspeed Average Cost, if populated.

Images

Name

Options (Default in Bold)

Effect

Add Images

On
Off

On = Add all images from the POS product to the Shopify product.

Note: Only turn this on if you have no images in Shopify

No Variant Images

On
Off

On = Do not upload photos associated with variants to Shopify.

Options

Name

Options (Default in Bold)

Effect

SKU Source

Custom SKU
EAN
ManufacturerSKU
SystemID
UPC

Options vary by POS

Title Source

Description
Short Description

Selects the preferred source for Shopify Title.

Short Description = Use Short Description if non-blank, else Description.

Description = Use only the Description.

Vendor Source

Brand
Vendor

Select the source POS field for the Shopify product vendor.

Price Source

Drop down of options.

Select the source POS pricing level for the Shopify product price.

Compare at Price Source

Drop down of options.

Select the source POS pricing level for the Shopify product compare at price.


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