The details that make exports work

Why exports fail, and what it usually is

When a product refuses to publish to Amazon, eBay or Etsy, the connection is rarely at fault. The marketplace has asked for something the request did not contain: a category it recognises, an attribute required for that category, an identifier, or a value in a format it accepts.

That makes the problem systematic and therefore fixable in bulk. Once you know where each marketplace's requirements are satisfied in your setup, through category mapping, the creation profile or metafields, the same class of error stops happening across the whole catalogue.

These videos work through the recurring cases: the category mapping error, per-product price and quantity control, and feeding store metafields into listing attributes.

• Resolve the "category mapping not found" error on eBay and Etsy exports.
• Override price and quantity per product without changing your store's retail price.
• Store specifications in Shopify metafields and use them as listing attributes.
• Tell apart the marketplace requirements you set once from the ones you set per product.

Metafields: where marketplace-only data belongs

Marketplaces ask for data a store has no reason to hold: fabric composition, department, fitment, country of manufacture, warranty terms. Putting it in the product description does not help, because the marketplace wants a structured field.

Shopify metafields are the right home for it. A metafield holds the value on the product, the creation profile maps it to the marketplace attribute, and a description template can pull the same value. Two of the videos below cover both halves, first managing the metafields in the store, then using them in Salestio.

Set this up once and the marketplace-specific data lives with the product, so it survives edits, applies to future listings and does not need re-entering per channel.

Price and quantity are decisions, not just data

Selling the same product in your store and on a marketplace rarely means selling it at the same number. Marketplace fees take a percentage, and holding back stock on shared inventory protects you against a burst of orders on one channel.

Salestio therefore separates your store's value from what it sends to the marketplace. Prices can be adjusted by rule or overridden per product, and quantity can be capped or reduced by a buffer. The short video on customising price and quantity shows the per-product control.