Are you looking to move to Gelato and have hundreds or thousands of products in your store? Then this article is for you. In the dashboard, you are able to connect variants one by one. This is a great way when you have a couple of products and variants that you want to connect. When you have hundreds or more than another approach is needed.
This guide is for customers who want to have their Etsy products fulfilled via Gelato.
To bulk migrate the products and variants we will leverage the Bulk Import Products functionality. There is no limit to how many products and variants that can be imported and connected with it in one go.
What you will need:
- Contact your account manager or Gelato representative to confirm your interest, they will provide you the export file
- A link to the print file for each variant
We are going to make a spreadsheet with several columns:
- Etsy product title
- Etsy product id
- Etsy variant title (The number of variant columns depends on how many variant dimensions you have)
- Etsy variant option name
- Etsy variant option value
- product UID (i.e. the Gelato product that should be printed)
- print file link (i.e. the link to the print file you want to have printed on the product)
Adding the print file
Use a spreadsheet software to modify the file we provided you in the previous step. Fill column to the sheet:
- Product UID
- File URL
Picking the right product_uid
The Product UID represents the product that should be fulfilled when the variant is ordered. To get the Product UID find the product in the catalog that you want to use. Select the right size, color, orientation (or any other dimension) needed. Then scroll down and click on the blue copy icon highlighted in the below screenshot.
Adding a link to the print file
In the column for File URL add a link to your print file even if you are connecting a product without design, e.g. a frame or a hanger.
Important: It is important that the link can be accessed without any login or credentials.
- If you are using Dropbox: Here is how you make a Dropbox link downloadable.
Paste the link into the cell of the spreadsheet. The print file can be in PNG, JPEG, or PDF format. Repeat until all variants are done.
Note: We can't process links from Google Drive (Google Cloud storage is ok).
Finalizing the import file
Now you are done with adding all data.
Make a copy of your file before you do this so you can easily go back and make further updates.
Example final structure
|
Product title |
Product ID |
Variant Title #1 |
Variant Option #1 Name |
Variant Option #1 Value |
Product UID |
File URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sunset Poster |
5307198341280 |
50x70 cm |
Size |
50x70 |
flat_product_pf_500x700-mm_pt_200-gsm-uncoated_cl_4-0_ct_none_prt_none_sft_none_set_none_ver |
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1b2c3d4ef5gh6/example.png?dl=1 |
|
Aurora |
5314279080096 |
30x40 cm |
Size |
30x40 |
flat_product_pf_300x400-mm_pt_200-gsm-uncoated_cl_4-0_ct_none_prt_none_sft_none_set_none_ver |
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1b2c3d4ef5gh6/example-2.png?dl=1 |
Importing the file
Currently, the import is run by Gelato on request. After you fill the product_uid and the file_url share the file with your account manager or Gelato representative. We will check that the file looks structurally ok but we will not make any specific verifications on that you have mapped each product and file correctly.
The import will then be run and all the variants in the sheet will be connected and start to be automatically fulfilled by Gelato.