Shopify - Category Mapping – Boyum Help Center

It is possible to synchronize Perfion Categories to Collections in Shopify. Products can afterword's be added to the Collections . The most simple category mapping is like:

Mapping to field	Output Kind	Description
SyncID (Required)	Field	The SyncID will be updated with Shopify Id for the categroy.
SyncDate (Required)	Field	The SyncDate will be updated with Shopify “Updated At” for the product. NOTE: deleting SyncDate value for chosen category will lead to category update in Shopify on next synchronization. NOTE: if more than one channel is used, then this parameter must be independent for each channel.
Key (Required)	KeyField	Usually “Value“ or “@Id” depending on value used in e.g. Metafield collection_reference.
Title (Required)	Field	A unique category title. The Title is translatable.
SyncMsg	Field	SyncMsg will be used for reporting errors back to products in Perfion.
BodyHtml	Field	A category description in plain test or Html. The BodyHtml is translatable.
OnlineStorePublishDate	Field	A date and time in the future if the Category should be publish at a specific time. Shopify only support the publish date for the Online Store. The format can be in: UTC “dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ssZ“ with time zone-offset “dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss +HH:mm“ without time zone-offset “dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss” and then the time zone-offset will be taken from the setting ShopifyTimeZone.
SalesChannels	Field	Multi feature of Sales Channels or a comma separated list of Sales Channels names
TemplateSuffix	Field	The theme template used when viewing the collection in a store
Image	Field, Image(Url)	Public image Uri or a Image feature
SortOrder	Field	The order in which the collection's products are sorted. Allowed values: AlphaAsc Alphabetically, in ascending order (A - Z). AlphaDesc Alphabetically, in descending order (Z - A). BestSelling By best-selling products. Created By date created, in ascending order (oldest - newest). CreatedDesc By date created, in descending order (newest - oldest). Manual In the order set manually by the merchant. PriceAsc By price, in ascending order (lowest - highest). PriceDesc By price, in descending order (highest - lowest).
Handle	Field	A unique human-friendly string for the collection. Automatically generated from the collection's title. The Handle is translatable.
SeoTitle	Field	SEO title of the collection. The SeoTitle is translatable from version 2.2.1.
SeoDescription	Field	SEO description of the collection. The SeoDescription is translatable from version 2.2.1.
RedirectNewHandle	Field	Indicates whether a redirect is required after a new handle has been provided. If true, then the old handle is redirected to the new one automatically. Default is false
Metafield\|<namespace>\|<key>\|<type>	Field	See Shopify - Metafield Mapping for more information.

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