Practical guides on importing supplier XML feeds into Shopify, keeping prices and stock in sync, pricing rules and running dropshipping or wholesale catalogues.
A practical guide to importing a supplier's XML product feed into Shopify: what the feed needs, how to connect it, how variants and images come across and how to keep prices and stock in sync.
Turn a supplier's wholesale and list prices into a Shopify selling price and an honest compare-at price with multipliers, and know when to use the feed's own old price.
One, three or eight sync runs a day: how to pick a sync frequency for a supplier feed based on how fast the supplier's stock moves, your order volume and the cost of an oversold order.
A field guide for Shopify dropshippers with a supplier XML feed: what to import, how to set margins, sync stock, handle several suppliers and avoid the classic mistakes.
Shopify imports CSV natively and XML through apps. This comparison looks at setup effort, variants, images, updates and automation to help you pick the right format for a supplier catalogue.
Your supplier or another store already publishes a Google Shopping feed? Here is how a Google Merchant Center XML feed maps to Shopify products, variants, prices and stock, and how to import it.
What happens when a Shopify store syncs stock and prices from a supplier XML feed: SKU matching, bulk updates, zero-stock handling and the safeguards against a bad feed.