Review and commit your catalogue
After the store's locations are mapped, Yessort pulls its products into a staging area. Nothing reaches your catalogue until you commit, so you can take your time.
Part of connecting a store; needs organisation-admin access.
Watch the pull
The pull runs in the background and reports where it is: Exporting from Shopify… while the store builds the export, then Saving into yessort… as rows are staged, then Matching to your catalogue… while Yessort compares them against what you already have.
The export stage shows a running count rather than a progress bar, because the store does not say how many items there will be in total.
Deal with the flagged rows first
Yessort flags what needs a person. Work through these before anything else, because they are where duplicates get created if you rush.
| Flag | What to do |
|---|---|
| SKU matches a variant you have | Choose Link to existing. This is the big one — creating instead leaves you selling the same thing twice |
| Duplicate SKU within the store | Decide which one is real. Shopify permits two variants to share a SKU; Yessort does not |
| No SKU | A SKU has to be set. Yessort matches stock and orders by it |
| Barcode matches a registered physical product | Probably the same physical item as an existing anchor |
Decide on the rest
Each staged variant takes one decision.
- Create — a new Yessort product and variant, linked to the listing, with its starting stock taken from the store.
- Link to existing — attach the listing to a variant you already have. No new record, and your stock is left alone.
- Skip — do not import it.
Yessort proposes a decision where it is confident. Those are guesses and it may revise them as the store changes. Anything you choose yourself is never revised.
Commit
When every row you care about has a decision, apply them. Variants marked create become real products and variants; variants marked link are attached to what you chose.
Committing does not put the channel live. Do that in activate a channel.
If you stop partway
Staged rows are kept for 30 days and you can resume inside that window. After it, the data is treated as stale and Yessort pulls the store again.