Product Templates

Product Templates in the CedCommerce Amazon Channel App offer a streamlined way to manage and update multiple product listings in bulk. They simplify inventory management, price configurations, and attribute mapping, saving time and reducing redundancy.

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Why Use Product Templates?

• Automate and standardize product data for multiple listings.
  
  

• Predefine inventory, pricing, and category attributes to ensure consistency.
  
  

• Reduce manual effort by applying templates to new and existing products.
  
  

How to Use Product Templates

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Accessing Product Templates

1. Navigate to the Product Template section.
   
   

2. This will open the template grid, where you can view all the templates you have created.
   
   

3. Click Add New Template to create a new one.
   
   

How to Create a Product Template?

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Step 1: Enter Template Details

• Template Name: Assign a unique name.
  
  

• Fulfillment Type: Choose between FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon) or FBM (Fulfilled by Merchant).
  
  

Step 2: Configure Category Settings

• GTIN Exemption: Enable this if your products lack valid barcodes/GTIN.
  
  

• Amazon Category: Assign a relevant Amazon category.
  
  

• Attribute Mapping: Match Shopify product attributes with Amazon’s required attributes.
  
  

Step 3: Set Inventory Rules

• Custom Inventory: Define inventory for products with "Continue selling when out of stock" enabled in Shopify.
  
  

• Max Inventory: Set a default value (e.g., 999).
  
  

• Fixed Inventory: Keep stock at a fixed level.
  
  

• Reserved Inventory: Allocate stock for promotions.
  
  

• Threshold Inventory: Mark products as "Out of Stock" when they reach a set limit.
  
  

• Delete Out-of-Stock Products: Remove unavailable items from Amazon.
  
  

• Warehouse Settings: Manage inventory across multiple locations.
  
  

Step 4: Configure Pricing Rules

• Enable Price Syncing to keep Shopify and Amazon pricing aligned.
  
  

• Set Rounding Preferences for accurate pricing adjustments.
  
  

• Define Pricing Types (Standard, Sale, Business, Minimum).
  
  

Step 5: Define Product Syncing Settings

• Enable synchronization for Product Details, Images, and Attributes.
  
  

• Set Handling Time to determine the estimated shipping duration.
  
  

Step 6: Apply Product Filters

• Filter products using Override Existing Products, Manual Selection, or Advanced Selection options.

Managing Existing Templates

1. Scroll to the Existing Templates section.

Advanced and Manual Selection in Templates

When filtering products to add to a template, you can choose between Manual Selection and Advanced Selection, depending on your needs.

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Manual Selection

Manual selection filters products based on their titles. This method is ideal for adding a smaller number of products to a template.

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• Enter a keyword, and all products containing that word in their title will be filtered.
  
  

• Once the drop-down opens, select the valid products to add to the template.
  
  

• Important: Only unlisted products appear in this list; listed products will not be shown.

  
  
  

• Click Continue to add the products to the template.
  
  

• Hit SAVE in the upper right-hand corner.
  
  

Advanced Selection

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Advanced selection refines your search using Groups and Rows, allowing for more precise filtering. This method is useful when adding a larger number of products to a template.

Groups

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A Group allows you to filter products based on various criteria, such as:

• Titles, Tags, Types, Prices, SKUs, Quantities, Product Status, Variant Attributes, Product Types, or Vendors.
  
  

You can create multiple Groups to filter products using different criteria.

• If at least one condition within any Group is met, the filtered products will be displayed.
  

  
  
  

Rows

A Row allows additional filtering within a Group. If the first row filters by Title, another row can filter by Price, Vendor, or another criterion to refine the selection further.

• A Row follows the "AND" condition, meaning all conditions in the Rows within a Group must be met for a product to appear in the results.
  
  

• You can add multiple Rows to a Group.
  

  
  
  

Example

If filtering by Title, the available conditions include:

• Equals
  
  

• Not Equals
  
  

• Contains
  
  

• Does Not Contain
  
  

• Greater Than
  
  

• Less Than
  
  

• Greater Than or Equal To
  
  

• Less Than or Equal To
  
  

Similarly, you can create multiple Rows within a Group for further filtering.

How Groups and Rows Work Together

• A Row functions on "AND" logic—all conditions within the Rows of a Group must be met.
  
  

• A Group functions on "OR" logic—if at least one Group's conditions are met, the filtered products will be displayed.
  
  

This means that products meeting the conditions of any one Group will appear in the results.

Finalizing the Selection

• Once your Groups and Rows are set, a pop-up notification will display the number of matching products.
  
  

• You can remove Groups or Rows if needed.
  
  

• Save changes to finalize the template.
  
  

• Important: To view products in a created template, click "View Products" in the Edit Template section.
  

  
  
  

Override Existing Templates

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Enabling this option replaces products from an existing template with the newly selected products.

Example

• Template X contains five products: Shirt1, Shirt2, Shirt3, Shirt4, and Shirt5.
  
  

• You want to move these products to Template Y instead.
  
  

• Apply the same filter criteria as before.
  
  

• Select "Override Existing Products"—this removes the products from Template X and adds them to Template Y.
  
  

• Click SAVE in the upper right-hand corner to finalize the changes.