Publishing settings

Summary

Publishing settings

This section provides information on managing product publications across sales channels and B2B catalogs.

What is product publication?

Product publication enables you to assign sales channels and B2B catalogs to all your products.

Please note that this feature does not support unpublishing products. 
To unpublish products, you will need to do so directly in Shopify.

 

Prerequisites

Before using the Product publishing feature, make sure to fulfill the following prerequisites:

  1. Creation of sales channels: You must have at least 1 sales channel in Shopify (e.g. Online store, POS) to set sales channels. Refer to Shopify's dedicated documentation on sales channel management here.
  2. Creation of B2B catalogs: You must have at least 1 B2B catalog in Shopify to set up B2B catalogs. Refer to Shopify's dedicated documentation on sales channel management here.

Configure sales channels & catalogs

Sales channels

You can choose whether to assign sales channels globally to all products, or individually per product.

Option 1: Assigning sales channels globally (by default)

Follow these steps to configure sales channels to assign to all products synchronized:

  1. In your Akeneo App for Shopify, navigate to the Configuration page.
  2. In the Publishing settings section, click on Sales channels.
  3. Select the sales channels where you want to publish your products.
  4. Save your selection.

Option 2: Assigning sales channels per product

Follow these steps to configure sales channels to assign to products individually:

Step 1: Enable per-product assignment

  1. In your Akeneo App for Shopify, navigate to the Configuration page.
  2. In the Publishing settings section, toggle Sales channels per product to On.

Step 2: Check available Shopify sales channels

  1. Click Help for configuration: Available Sales Channels.
  2. Copy the Channel IDs of the channels you want to assign to your products.

Step 3: Create a PIM attribute & assign Sales channels to products in the PIM

  1. In Akeneo PIM, create a new attribute of type simple select or multi-select.
  2. Add options corresponding to your Shopify channels. The option codes must exactly match the Shopify Channel IDs copied earlier - these IDs are required to assign the right sales channels to your products.
  3. Fill in your new attribute for each product to define the channels where it should be published.

Step 4: Map the attribute in the app

  1. Return to your Akeneo App for Shopify.
  2. In the Publishing settings, select your new PIM attribute in the Sales channels dropdown.
  3. Click Save.
 
 

B2B catalogs

Follow these steps to configure B2B catalogs to assign to your products:

  1. In your Akeneo App for Shopify, navigate to the Configuration page.
  2. In the Publishing settings section, click on B2B catalogs.
  3. Select the B2B catalogs where you want to publish your products.
  4. Save your selection.
 
 

Please note that during synchronization, the app will not overwrite the existing sales channels and B2B catalogs assigned in Shopify. Only the missing B2B catalogs and sales channels will be added.

 

Please note that all products will be published on the selected catalogs. 
You cannot set them individually for each product.

 

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