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Magento Product Properties


Overview

The Magento Product Properties page in Sellercloud enables you to seamlessly manage the data of your Magento listings. Integrating Magento allows you to configure various product attributes, manage inventory, define prices, and Update Listings.

This article describes all available Magento product properties in Sellercloud and includes links to related articles for more information. To explore other related topics, refer to our Magento Category.

See Bulk Update Products to learn how to bulk-update Magento product properties.

Magento Product Properties

To access and update a product’s Magento properties:

  1. Go to a Product Details Page.
  2. Click Toolbox and select Magento Properties.

  3. Click Edit.
  4. See the tables in the following sections for descriptions of the properties on the page.
  5. Update properties and click Save.

General

Property Description
Enabled Enable Sellercloud to send product information and updates to Magento. With Variation Products, the parent and all the children must be Magento Enabled. When Bulk Updating products, use the MagentoEnabled column header and enter True.
Merchant SKU The product’s unique Magento-specific identifier. You must enable a Client Setting called Enable Magento Merchant SKU for this property to appear.
Website IDs List The IDs of Magento websites where the product will be posted and updated. If you leave this blank, it will be posted and updated on all websites.
Exported For Magento Mark if the product has been exported to Magento or not for internal tracking purposes.
Inventory And/Or Price Update On Magento Needed Mark if the product needs an inventory and/or price update on Magento for internal tracking purposes. It is enabled by default and gets disabled after an update.
Visibility Determine where the product will appear on your Magento website.
Ready To Post Indicates whether the product is ready to post to Magento. If you have an item that is not ready to be posted yet, hover over the section to see a pop-up that lists the missing product properties required to post the product.

Pricing

Property Description
Apply Map Determine if the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) functionality is enabled for the product. Select Yes to enable it, No to disable it, or Use config to let the global configuration determine the functionality.
Display Actual Price Determine when the actual price of a product (the price below the MAP) is displayed to the customer.

  • In Cart: The actual price is displayed in the shopping cart.
  • Before Order Confirmation: The actual price is displayed before the order is confirmed.
  • On Gesture: The actual price is displayed when the user clicks Click for price to display it.
  • Use config: The display of the actual price is determined by the global configuration.
Cost The product cost from the Site Cost on the Product Details Page.
Price The product price from the Site/Retail Price on the Product Details Page. To set the price manually, deselect the Default checkbox.
Special Price A special discounted price for the selected product.
Special Price From Date The first date of the special price promotion.
Special Price To Date The last date of the special price promotion.
Tax Class The product’s tax setting. To manually change this value, deselect the Default checkbox to stop applying the Default Tax Class set up in your Magento Account Settings.

Listing Details

Property Description
Attribute Set Select a pre-configured set of product attributes to add to the product. For more information, see Magento Products: Attributes.
Magento Categories Specify the matching product category on Magento. To configure categories, go to Company Settings > Magento > Categories.
Product Title The title of a product on Magento – up to 255 characters are allowed.
Short Description A brief description of the product on Magento. By default, this is the same description as the Short Description on the Product Details Page. If you enable a Client Setting called Enable Magento Specific Product Description, this field turns into a unique description of the product that appears only on Magento.
Long Description A full description of the product on Magento. By default, this is the same description as the Long Description on the Product Details Page. If you enable a Client Setting called Enable Magento Specific Product Description, this field turns into a unique description of the product that appears only on Magento.
Manufacturer The product’s Manufacturer.
Manufacturer Part # A unique number issued by the manufacturer to identify the product.

Inventory

Property Description
Disconnected From Inventory Enable to prevent Sellercloud from sending further quantities to Magento. The last sent quantity will remain there.
Avail. Qty The product’s available inventory for Magento.
Qty For Channel The actual quantity that will be sent to Magento.
Safety Qty The product’s Safety Quantity to be subtracted from the Available Qty and prevent overselling. This amount won’t be included in the inventory feed. If you check the Default box, the default set on your company’s Magento Account Settings will apply.
Min Qty For Shopping Cart The minimum quantity that can be purchased. If you check the Default box, the default set on your company’s Magento Account Settings will apply.
Max Qty For Shopping Cart The maximum quantity that can be purchased. If you check the Default box, the default set on your company’s Magento Account Settings will apply.
Qty To Make Out Of Stock The threshold quantity under which the product will be marked as out of stock. If you check the Default box, the default set on your company’s Magento Account Settings will apply.
Stock Available Display the product on the front end of your Magento website.
Allow Backorder Select Yes to display the product on Magento even if it is out-of-stock, allowing it to be purchased in Backorders.
Inventory Last Sent Indicates the last quantity, date, and time when inventory was sent to Magento. If no updates have been sent yet for the SKU, this field will display N/A.

Shipping

Property Description
Shipping Weight The shipping weight of a single product unit.
Enable Free Shipping Offer free shipping for the product.

Tier Pricing

This panel allows you to configure special discount pricing for bulk buyers. In this type of discount, you reduce your product’s price by a specified amount based on the ordered quantity. The discount must be offered to a specific Magento Customer Group and can be set as either a percentage or a fixed amount. 

Learn more about Magento Tier Pricing.

Customer Pricing

This panel allows you to configure special pricing for each individual connected website. This type of discount must be offered to a specific Magento Customer Group and is set as a fixed amount per unit. 

Channel Images

The Channel Images panel stores product images for display on the Magento website. You can import images from files or public URLs. Press the pencil (Edit Channel Images) icon to manage images for different product previews. 

Meta Info

This panel displays meta information used to optimize product searches on Magento.

  • Meta Title – The product listing page’s title – a vital factor for search optimization.
  • Meta Description – The product listing page’s description on search engines.
  • Meta Keyword – The product listing page’s meta keywords tag.

Custom Columns

This panel shows any custom product properties that you have enabled for Magento. They will be displayed on your Magento website in addition to the standard properties. For more information, refer to Custom Product Columns.

Actions

Sellercloud offers certain listing-related actions for your Magento-enabled products. You can execute the actions described in the following sections either individually or in bulk.

Individual Actions

To access the product’s actions:

  1. Go to a Product Details Page.
  2. Click Actions and select from the following actions:

    1. Post Product on Magento – List the product on Magento. Make sure the General panel’s Enabled box is checked and that the product is Ready To Post.
    2. Update Inventory on Magento – Update the product’s inventory on Magento according to its Qty For Channel in Sellercloud.
    3. Update Price on Magento – Update the product’s price on Magento according to its Price  in Sellercloud.
    4. Update Inventory and Price on Magento – Update both the available quantity and the price on Magento.
    5. Update Images Only on Magento – Update the product images on Magento.
    6. Restrict/Unrestrict For Channel – Restrict the product to exclude it from posting, updating, and both inventory and pricing feeds, or unrestrict it to resume the updates.
    7. Connect/Disconnect to Inventory – Disconnect the product’s Sellercloud inventory from Magento to stop updating the available quantity or connect it to send updates.

Bulk Actions

Some of the Magento-related product actions are also available to perform in bulk:

  1. Go to Catalog > Manage Catalog.
  2. Find products and select them.
  3. Click the blue Actions icon in the bottom right corner, and select:

    1. Enable/Disable For Channel – Control if the Magento integration is enabled for the selected products.
    2. Launch on Channel – Post listings for the selected products on Magento. Make sure that the products are Enabled and Ready To Post.
    3. Restrict/Unrestrict For Channel – Imposes or removes Magento Product Restrictions.
    4. Connect To Inventory – Link the product to the available inventory, allowing Sellercloud to send inventory updates to Magento.
    5. Disconnect From Inventory – Disassociate the product’s connected inventory from Magento.
    6. Update Inventory on Channel – Update the selected products’ available inventory on Magento based on the inventory available in Sellercloud.
    7. Update Prices on Channel – Update the selected products’ prices on Magento based on the prices set in Sellercloud.
    8. Update Images On Channel – Update Product Images on Magento based on the images set in Sellercloud.
    9. Export Channel Info – Export Magento attributes to an Excel spreadsheet file.
    10. Export Channel Missing Information – Export an Excel spreadsheet file with data related to required and missing information for Magento.

Overview

With Sellercloud, you can prepare sale listings for your products on the Magento website. All of the parameters sent to Magento are company-related and configured individually for each company. The values of those parameters are managed from the Magento Properties page of the product being posted to Magento.

See the following video:

Note: SellerCloud supports multiple versions of Magento, and integrates with V2.5.5.1 (current) back to V1.8.6.

Navigate Inventory > Product >Toolbox > Magento Properties or click on Magento Icon on Manage Inventory grid. There are five tabs on the Magento Properties page:

  1. General Settings
  2. Manage Pricing
  3. Manage Tier Pricing
  4. Manage Meta Data
  5. Manage Images
  6. Manage Inventory

General Settings Tab

  1. The product must be “Magento Enabled”. Otherwise, an inventory of zero will be uploaded for that product. With Matrix products, the parent and all variation children need to be “Magento Enabled”. This field will also update the product “Status” field on Magento. Bulk update with column header MagentoEnabled. Expected values are True or False.
  2. Select a Magento Attribute Set. Attributes that have been created and linked to that attribute set on Magento will display on the Magento properties page beneath the standard attributes. Attribute sets are downloaded into SellerCloud on the Magento General Settings page. See below for updating attributes in bulk. You can also map attributes from SellerCloud to Magento using the Magento Attributes Mapping Page.
  3. Edit product info, if necessary.
  4. To set safety quantity for product individually, uncheck Use Default checkbox to  open the safety quantity field.
  5. Select category from Magento Category Tree.
  6. Enable Free Shipping on the product if desired.

Manage Price Tab

  1. Price is pulled from Site Price on the Product Summary page. Editing it here will change it on the Product home page as well.
  2. Create special sale price with date range.

Manage Price Tier Tab

  1. Please read Magento Tier Pricing.

Manage Meta Data Tab

  1. Meta data is configured here

Manage Images Tab

  1. All images will display in the image grid. Select the Base, Small, and Thumbnail Images.

Manage Inventory Tab

  1. Set minimum and maximum quantities required to allow purchase, if desired.
  2. Entering a value into the Quantity to Make Out of Stock field will cause the product to be considered “out of stock” when the inventory level falls to that value.
  3. The Stock is Available checkbox is enabled by default and must remain enabled for the product to display on the front end of your Magento website.
  4. Allow Backorder – select Yes if you would like your product to be displayed on Magento even when there is no quantity. The item will be able to be purchased as a backorder.

Updating Magento Attributes in Bulk.

Navigate Inventory > Import Product Info > Import Magento Attributes. Download template, populate, and import.
  • Use the attribute_code to fill in the Attribute Name column, or use the numerical ID to fill in the AttributeID column. This ensures that the correct attribute column is being updated (as two display names are sometimes identical).

To list on Magento:

Make sure the Magento Enabled box is checked. Select Post Product on Magento on the Action Menu and click GO.
You can post it from the Manage inventory page by selecting product(s) and clicking Launch on Magento on the Action Menu.
To update listings on Magento, read here.

To list variations on Magento: 

In Magento, you need to create an attribute for each drop-down list of options that you want the matrix to have. Once you do this, or if you have one already created, you need to add it to the attribute set you plan to use for the product in SellerCloud.

Based on the attribute name, create the N-Matrix in SellerCloud.

All children and the parent must be enabled and ready in SellerCloud. Then you will post the parent to Magento, which will send the children with it.

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