Send products to Shopify

You can create products in Odoo and send them to Shopify, or update products that are already linked.

Before you start

• The store is connected and Product Images (Products tab) is set the way you want.
• Give each product, or each variant, an Internal Reference: Shopify uses it as SKU, and Odoo uses it to avoid creating the same product twice.
• Products with variants need attributes that create variants (Instantly). Attributes that never create variants are not sent.

Method 1: from the product list

1. Open Sales > Products > Products (or Inventory > Products), switch to the list view and select the products.
2. Click Action > Send to Online Store.
3. Fill in the dialog:

Field	What it does
Store	The Shopify store. Filled in when you have only one connected store.
Status in the Store	Draft (review in the store first): new products get the store's Status of New Products (Draft by default). Published: new and existing products become Active.
Update Products Already in the Store	On: linked products are updated too. Off: only new products are sent.
Send Images	Send the main image and variant images.

4. Click Send in Background. One job per product (Send Wool Hat to the store).

Method 2: automatic

There is no automatic product export. Stock and prices of linked products are sent automatically (Send stock, Send prices).

What is sent

Odoo	Shopify
Name	Title
Description (or Sales Description when the description is empty)	Description
Product Category name	Product type
Attributes and values	Options and option values. A simple product gets Shopify's default option Title / Default Title.
Per variant: Internal Reference	SKU
Per variant: Barcode	Barcode
Per variant: price of the store Pricelist, and sale price of the Sale Price Pricelist	Price; when there is a sale price, the price is the sale price and the regular price goes to compare-at
Per variant: Weight	Weight in kilograms
Quantity tracking	Always on
Image and variant images	Product media (main image, variant images)

What happens step by step

1. Find the Shopify product. A linked product is updated. A product that is not linked yet is looked up by SKU (up to its first three SKUs): if Shopify already has a variant with that SKU, that product is updated and linked instead of creating a duplicate. Otherwise a new product is created.
2. Create or update in one call. Odoo sends the whole product (Shopify's productSet), so options and variants in Shopify end up exactly as in Odoo.
3. Link the variants. Each Shopify variant is matched to its Odoo variant by option values, and Odoo stores the variant and inventory item IDs.
4. Stock and Market prices. Odoo sends the stock of each variant to the mapped locations and the prices to your Markets. If that step fails, the product stays linked, a warning is logged and the stock is sent again 2 minutes later.

Images

Product Images	How it works	When to use
Odoo uploads them to Shopify (default)	Odoo uploads the file to Shopify's file storage, then attaches it.	Always works when Odoo can reach Shopify's upload host on the internet. Works when Odoo itself is not public.
Shopify downloads them from Odoo	Odoo gives Shopify a signed link to the image; Shopify fetches it.	When Odoo is public and you prefer not to upload.
Do not send images	No media are sent.	Images are managed in Shopify.

The main image is sent again only when it changed since the last send. Variant images are sent with each send.

Good to know

• Sending replaces the options and variants of the Shopify product with Odoo's. Variants that exist only in Shopify are removed by Shopify.
• Collections, tags, vendor, SEO fields and metafields are not sent in version 1.0.
• Sales channel publication follows Shopify's defaults for new products.
• A test copy of the database never sends products.

FAQ

The job failed with a Shopify message about a field. Shopify checks every variant (for example a duplicate option combination, or a barcode format). Fix the product in Odoo and click Retry on the job.

I created a product in Shopify by hand that also exists in Odoo. Give both the same SKU and import products, or send it from Odoo: the SKU lookup links them.