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How catalogue linking works

A variant is on sale on a channel when a link exists between the two. The link records which listing on the channel corresponds to that Yessort variant, and it is what lets Yessort push a price or a stock figure to the right place, and route an incoming order line back to the right variant.

There is at most one link per variant per channel. A variant listed on two stores has two, each with its own identifiers.

The channel's identifiers for the product and the variant, so updates and orders find their way back.

The unit of measure the channel sells in. This is what makes it possible to sell the same variant per-each on one channel and per-case on another: each link points at its own unit of measure, and the price and barcode published to that channel are the ones for that packaging level.

A sync status, saying how the last push went — never pushed, pending, synced, or failed, with the error if it failed. The full list is in channel sync statuses.

Which variants get published​

Each channel has a publish mode, and it decides what happens to a newly created variant.

Manual select — nothing is published unless you choose it. You publish a variant to a channel from the variant itself. This is where every channel starts.

Auto all — every variant in the organisation is linked and pushed as soon as it is created.

A channel is set to manual select when it is created, and stays there until you change it in the channel's catalogue settings. Connecting a store does not change it: onboarding decides which of the store's existing products you keep, which is a different question from what happens to variants you create later.

A choice you make yourself always wins​

Publish mode is a default, not a rule. If you take a variant off a channel that is set to auto all, it stays off. Yessort does not re-add it on the next sync, because you said otherwise and a per-variant decision outranks the channel-wide setting.

The same principle runs through the review queue: a decision a person made is never overwritten by a later automatic pass.

Seeing it across the catalogue​

The coverage matrix, under Catalogue in the workspace, shows every product against every channel and the state of each link. It is read-only — it is for spotting the product that never made it onto a store, or the one listed somewhere you did not expect. See check channel coverage.