How to Add Advanced Commands?
You can use advanced commands to customize your product uploads. Advanced commands grant you more control over your listings, allowing you to modify your product list and map your Shopify product attributes with Etsy's products.
You can add advanced commands in two ways:
- While uploading new products from Shopify to Etsy.
- Add to the already uploaded Shopify products to Etsy.
Firstly, let's learn how you can add advanced commands when uploading products from Shopify to Etsy. Learn more about how to upload your Shopify products to Etsy from here:
- While uploading products, you will see the "Additional Settings" on the profile page of our application. Click on the "Click here" link as shown in the screenshot below:
- You will see another " Click here " link, which is specified for " Advanced Users Only," as shown in the screenshot below:
- Once you click on the " Click here" link, you will find the option to add the Advanced Command. Provide the Advanced Command and click on the " Add " button as shown in the screenshot below:
- Once you click the " Add " button, the provided advanced command will be applied to that profile. ( Please Note: This advanced command is only applied to the products which are included in this profile)
Now let's learn how you can apply advanced commands to products that have already been uploaded; follow these steps:
Go to the Upload Profiles section inside our app.
- Locate the profile for which you want to make the changes and click on Edit:
- Scroll down to the bottom, you will see the "Additional Settings" in the profile page of our application. Click on the "Click here" link as shown in the screenshot below:
- You will see another " Click here " link, which is specified for " Advanced Users Only," as shown in the screenshot below:
- Once you click on the " Click here" link, you will find the option to add the Advanced Command. Provide the Advanced Command and click on the " Add " button as shown in the screenshot below:
- Once you click the " Add " button, the provided advanced command will be applied to that profile. ( Please Note: This advanced command is only applied to the products which are included in this profile)
- Lastly, click on " Save & Upload." This will update your Etsy products based on the Advanced command you used.
This is how you can add Advanced Commands using our application. Below is a comprehensive list of advanced commands that can serve as a reference.
If you need help during this process, please contact our support team. We are more than willing to help.
- Here are the list of advanced commands
| Advanced Command | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| setAttributeDefault attribute_name as "value" | Configure the default value for an attribute | setAttributeDefault brand as "ABC" |
| mapAttribute attribute1 to attribute2 | Map the attribute value for attribute1 to attribute2 | mapAttribute brand to Brand_name |
| deleteAttribute attribute_name | Delete the specified attribute | deleteAttribute regular_price |
| deleteAttribute * | Delete all attributes | deleteAttribute * |
| rule concat(string1, string2, string3, ...) as name | Concatenate values to create a new attribute | rule concat(title, color) as new_title |
rule discount(amount,*) 1.1= 10% 1.2=20% |
Increase listing price | rule discount(5) -> Take $5 off rule discount(1.1, *) -> increase the listing price by 10% 10% as 1+(10% of 1) = 1.1 |
rule concat(description, "<br><br>text.") as new_description setAttributeDefault description as $new_description |
Adding extra information onto the description | rule concat(description, "<br><br>Please contact us at our email if you have queries.") as new_description setAttributeDefault description as $new_description This command adds this sentence at the end of the description that already exists in your product: Please get in touch with us at our email if you have queries. |
| rule removeEmptyAttributes(attribute) | Remove empty (blank) attributes | rule removeEmptyAttributes(regular_price) |
| rule addPriceFlatFee(amount) | Increase the price of the product by a flat amount | rule addPriceFlatFee(25) |