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Create back-office product and price records from storefront

Automatically monitor new or updated products across Shopify and categorize them in your back-office tools. Create and update product records and prices when products change, so you can prevent catalog drift, speed up merchandising, and avoid manual entry.

How this automation keeps your back-office catalog current

When new or updated products hit your storefront, gaps in your back-office catalog can delay pricing and merchandising. This automation detects products, extracts codes, normalizes categories, looks up IDs, and creates product and price records automaticallyβ€”so your team can keep catalogs accurate.

  1. 1.Monitors new product changes

    Integrate Shopify, product data tools, and back-office systems to capture product payload and to centralize incoming product details.

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  2. 2.Extracts numeric product code

    Integrate Formatter by Zapier and data cleanup tools to extract numeric product code for matching product records.

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  3. 3.Normalizes category value

    Integrate Formatter by Zapier and lookup formatting tools to normalize category value for consistent back-office category matching.

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  4. 4.Finds category ID in back office

    Integrate Webhooks by Zapier and API lookup tools to get the category ID from your back-office categories endpoint.

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  5. 5.Creates products and posts prices

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Calendly
Okta
Zendesk
Dropbox
Asana
Allstate
Airbnb
ActiveCampaign
Lyft
Webflow
Canva
Sysco
LA Clippers
Getaround
Grammarly
HelloFresh
Lululemon
Barry's
Hopper
Casper
Hudl
Miro
The New York Times
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