Important Things to Know About Selling on Shopify

Existing Shopify Store/Account 

In order to manage your products on Shopify via upload or external software, a Shopify store is required. The integration for our Shopify App does not include the Shopify store. Our Shopify App requires that you already have a store with Shopify. 

Non-Direct Dropship Products 

This Shopify Integration will only affect listings you submit via Direct Dropship and will have no effect on other listings you may have from other sources. 

Shipping Settings

When products are loaded to your Shopify store, the shipping cost will be included in the price by default. You can add or remove any shipping costs from your Shopify store admin. You can offer FREE shipping on all items in your store. Not only will your buyers like to see free shipping, but you can also be safe knowing that the shipping cost will always be covered by your selling prices.

We are unable to adjust your shipping settings via this tool. You will need to set your shipping settings directly in your Shopify admin. You will be able to offer free shipping to anywhere in the continental US (lower 48 states) with this integration. Make sure your shipping settings reflect this accordingly.

Product Changes

When using the Direct Dropship Shopify Integration, all changes to products such as prices, titles, descriptions or category mapping should be done from your product files. This is required because your CSV product files are considered as your main source for the products on your list.

As such, if you make any price changes, title changes, description changes, or category changes directly from your Shopify Admin then those changes will be overwritten the next time your Product List is synced with your store.

To avoid this issue please make sure that you make these changes directly from your Direct Dropship product list.

Remove Unwanted Products

There are a couple of ways to remove unwanted products from your Shopify store:

REMOVE INDIVIDUALLY FROM THE PRODUCT FILE

When initially downloading the file from us, you have the ability to remove any items you do not wish to sell on your storefront. Simply delete them from the Product CSV that we provide, and those products will not be imported.

REMOVE ENTIRE COLLECTIONS FROM THE PRODUCT FILE

You also have the ability to delete entire Collections from the Product File. Simply download our Product CSV file. Sort or filter all products by Collection. Delete all products that belong to that collection. Resave the file as a CSV. Import into your Shopify admin.

Upgrade: Alternatively, you can sign up for our Custom Shopify Integration where we can automatically limit the categories in the integration based on your selling preferences.

Shopify Collections and Product Categories

As you know Shopify uses the notion of collections instead of category names to group products together. Collections are used in your Shopify store to help you group the products so your buyers can easily browse, search, and find the products easily in your store.

When you import products from Direct Dropship, your store will show our website categories as collections in your store. This might be OK if you don't already have collections in your store, however, if you already have spent time creating your own collections of products, then you may also want to use those during the import.

To avoid this, simply modify the Products CSV file to reflect the Collections as you would like them to be reflected in your website.

The Direct Dropship Shopify Integration will help you automate the import of eligible dropship products from our warehouses straight to your Shopify store with continuously updated, automated inventory updates.

Upgrade: Alternatively, you can sign up for our Custom Shopify Integration where we can automatically match the Collections in the integration to the Collections in your Shopify based on your preferences.

Shopify File Import Limitations

Shopify requires that the CSV file be less than 20MB in size so your feed may have to be split into multiple files.

The file containing all of our products is currently less than 20MB in size. However, if you make changes to the file and it surpasses that limit, you may need to manually split the file into smaller files.

To make adding products to your Shopify store easier, simply follow the listings steps we provided to import the Shopify feed into your Shopify.com website.