Every channel wants product data in its own shape. EasyChannel keeps one product in your catalog and reshapes it per channel with a few tools. This page tells you which tool does what and where to find it. Most of them are under Product Catalog > Products Settings.
Which tool should I use?
You want to... | Use |
Decide which product field fills each channel field | Mapping templates (Products Settings > Mapping Templates) |
Calculate a value, or send it only when a condition is met | A rule inside a mapping template. See Rules, Lookup Lists and Custom Specifics. |
Swap one value for another (Yellow sent as Gold-Tone) | A lookup list inside a mapping template, same article. |
Add an item specific the channel's field list doesn't have | Custom Specifics in the mapping template, same article. |
Store a product detail EasyChannel has no field for | Custom attributes (Products Settings > Custom Attributes) |
Group products and map them to channel categories | Product categories and the Categories Mapper |
Change many products at once | Bulk actions in the Product Catalog |
Fill or rewrite fields with AI | AI prompts (Product Catalog > AI) |
Run a change every time something happens, for example when stock reaches zero | Automations (Products Settings > Automations) |
How do they fit together?
Get your products into the catalog: import them from a channel or a CSV, or create them by hand.
Fill in the product properties and any custom attributes. Bulk actions and AI prompts help with many products.
Map your categories to each channel's categories.
Set up a mapping template per channel account, with rules and lookup lists where the channel needs different values.
Publish. See How to Publish Products to a Channel in EasyChannel.
FAQ
Where can I look up a term?
See the EasyChannel Glossary.
A listing failed. Which tool do I fix?
The error message tells you which field is wrong. See Listing Errors in EasyChannel: How to Find and Fix Them.