Get Started With AfterShip Feed
Plans: All plans Platforms: All platforms
In this tutorial, we will discuss:
Introduction
Preparation checklist prior to beginning
Category mapping
Product Syncing and linking
Order management
FAQ
This help guide contains a few crucial details you need to know before beginning with AfterShip Feed and explains all the features to let you use our application hassle-free.
AfterShip Feed provides product feed, syncing order, and Linking TikTok Shop's exiting products to your store's products features to merchants.
We only sync the product information obtained from your eCommerce platform stores to your TikTok Shop for more efficient product listing.
Information modified on TikTok Shop will not be synced to your eCommerce platform stores.
We support 9 eCommerce platforms: Shopify, BigCommerce, Salesforce, Magento 2, WooCommerce, Amazon Seller Central, PrestaShop, TikTok Shop, and Wix.
You can link TikTok Shop's existing products to your eCommerce platform.
We will sync orders with your eCommerce platform stores when orders are placed from TikTok Shop. Orders created from your eCommerce platform stores will not be synced to your TikTok Shop.
Make sure you have a registered TikTok Shop account and completed the TikTok Shop onboarding process
We support TikTok Shop US, TikTok Shop UK, TikTok Shop Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Hong Kong SAR
Data synchronization will stop if your eCommerce platform stores' currency differs from the currency you’ve set for your TikTok Shop
Set up your TikTok Shop’s pick-up and return warehouse locations
Go to My Account > Account settings > Warehouse settings
Go to My Account > Account settings > Warehouse settings
Set up your Delivery Areas and create Shipping Fees Templates in your TikTok Shop
Go to Orders > Shipping templates
Go to Shipping > Shipping templates
Set up areas where you deliver and define maximum order weight along with the max weight shipping fee if the order weight exceeds the maximum defined weight
Select a preferred shipping option
For more information on TikTok Shop Shipping, please refer to the guide Setting Up Shipping in TikTok Shop Seller Center
Go to Orders > Shipping options
Go to Shipping > Shipping options
Set up taxes
Go to My Account > Account settings > Taxes
Go to My Account > Account settings > Taxes
First, before syncing your products, you should manually map the product category between your eCommerce platform stores and TikTok Shop with AfterShip Feed.
If you edit the categories in your eCommerce platform stores' admin, it would take 30 minutes to see the changes in our app.
Only one category can be selected for each product.
If you want to automate the product mapping process, create category templates.
Set custom rules to automatically map your products to TikTok Shop categories
Any new products you add will be automatically categorized based on your rules
Streamline the process of adding product information by applying all required information at once, instead of for each product individually
Go to the Category mapping list page, where you’ll see how many products you’ve mapped so far
Select the category for which you want to make changes and then click Edit
Choose the product for which you want to change the category mapping and click Remove. Once done, choose the product again for a new category mapping
You won’t be able to change category mapping using our application if a product has already been synced to your TikTok Shop. However, you can change the product’s category from the TikTok Shop Seller Center, but it would cause failure in creating orders on your eCommerce platform stores.
Once the category mapping is done for all your products, you can sync them to your TikTok Shop. They will be treated as new product listings after the syncing.
Go to the Product syncing page (Only products with category mapping will be displayed)
Select the products and click Sync products
You can perform a bulk action by selecting all the SKUs of one product and syncing them in one go. Of course, you can choose specific SKUs if you only want to sell certain product variants on your TikTok Shop.
Use the Link Products feature if you have already uploaded products from TikTok Shop Seller Center and want to manage orders placed on your TikTok Shop through eCommerce platform stores. Find out more here.
If you already have a TikTok Shop with certain products and wish to sync the same products from your eCommerce platform stores, please delete your TikTok Shop products in advance to prevent duplicate product entries.
After syncing products to your TikTok Shop, you will see your products with either of the following statuses
Reviewing
Review failed
Active (We will tell you the reason why the review failed)
Once a product is synced to your TikTok Shop, it will be under review by default. You will also see the Reviewing status on your TikTok Shop Seller Center. The review time depends on the TikTok Shop platform's process.
In AfterShip Feed Orders tab, you can easily keep track of all your orders. Additionally, if any of your orders fail to sync, you can view detailed information regarding the reasons for the failure and instructions for how to rectify the issue. This feature ensures that you stay informed about the status of all your TikTok Shop orders and are able to take appropriate actions in case of any errors or issues.
If any of your products got rejected by the TikTok Shop, we would show the Failed review status along with the reason. If you want to modify the product information to clear the review process, edit the product fields on TikTok Shop Seller Center.
Please note that editing product fields in our application won't make a difference, as your changes will not be updated to TikTok Shop. You'll need help to file a new review request for the rejected products.
Check this table to learn about what statuses we show and their meaning:
When you sync a product from your eCommerce store, all the related product fields (e.g., product titles, images, description) get synced to the TikTok Shop.
We currently support a simple product description format, including copy plain text, images, and bullet points. However, rich formats like tables, ordered lists, etc., aren’t properly displayed on TikTok Shop. Thus, we suggest checking the product description after syncing your products to the TikTok Shop and making the required modifications.
We set a default value for some fields which BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento-2, or Shopify platforms don’t support for successful product syncing
Upon successful product listing, two product fields: Price and Inventory, would be updated automatically whenever you make changes from your eCommerce platform admin. This will affect your TikTok Shop product in two ways:
If you change price and inventory from your TikTok Shop, the data would be overridden by changes you make in your eCommerce platform stores
If you modify product fields other than price and inventory, such as product name, images, etc., changes will not be updated to TikTok Shop automatically
It will take effect immediately if you change the product detail information, such as images, description, etc., on your TikTok Shop. The changes related to product detail information (other than price and inventory) from your eCommerce platform stores will not be updated to TikTok Shop's products.
When you change the product price and inventory on your Magento-2 store, it will take at most 15 minutes for changes to be applied to your TikTok Shop. For BigCommerce and WooCommerce, changes get updated immediately.
Please note that BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento-2, and Shopify slowly update the inventory information. It means you might end up doing overselling.
There are situations when we fail to sync orders from TikTok Shop to your eCommerce platform stores. The most common reasons for failure are:
The ordered product has been deleted from your eCommerce platform
The required fields for the order syncing are either missing or invalid from TikTok Shop
AfterShip Feed Order Center lets you seamlessly track and manage all your orders. Additionally, if any of your orders fail to sync, you can view detailed information regarding the reasons for the failure and instructions on how to rectify the issue. This feature ensures that you stay informed about the status of all your TikTok Shop orders and are able to take appropriate actions in case of any errors or issues. Learn more
You can check cancellations, returns, and refund information from the homepage of our app, but these cannot be processed through eCommerce platform stores' admin. These will need to be handled via TikTok Shop Seller Center.
If you cancel orders through your eCommerce platform stores' admin, this will not automatically be updated on TikTok Shop. You also have to cancel orders on TikTok Shop.
If you cancel orders through your TikTok Shop, the order status will be updated automatically in the order section of your eCommerce platform stores. However, the status will remain the same if you handle a return or refund request through your TikTok Shop.
For any help, write to our chat support team at support+feed@automizely.com.
What you'll learn
In this tutorial, we will discuss:
Introduction
Preparation checklist prior to beginning
Category mapping
Product Syncing and linking
Order management
FAQ
Overview
This help guide contains a few crucial details you need to know before beginning with AfterShip Feed and explains all the features to let you use our application hassle-free.
How does AfterShip Feed function?
AfterShip Feed provides product feed, syncing order, and Linking TikTok Shop's exiting products to your store's products features to merchants.
We only sync the product information obtained from your eCommerce platform stores to your TikTok Shop for more efficient product listing.
Information modified on TikTok Shop will not be synced to your eCommerce platform stores.
We support 9 eCommerce platforms: Shopify, BigCommerce, Salesforce, Magento 2, WooCommerce, Amazon Seller Central, PrestaShop, TikTok Shop, and Wix.
You can link TikTok Shop's existing products to your eCommerce platform.
We will sync orders with your eCommerce platform stores when orders are placed from TikTok Shop. Orders created from your eCommerce platform stores will not be synced to your TikTok Shop.
Checklist to follow
Make sure you have a registered TikTok Shop account and completed the TikTok Shop onboarding process
We support TikTok Shop US, TikTok Shop UK, TikTok Shop Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Hong Kong SAR
Data synchronization will stop if your eCommerce platform stores' currency differs from the currency you’ve set for your TikTok Shop
Set up your TikTok Shop’s pick-up and return warehouse locations
United States
Go to My Account > Account settings > Warehouse settings
United Kingdom
Go to My Account > Account settings > Warehouse settings
Set up your Delivery Areas and create Shipping Fees Templates in your TikTok Shop
United States
Go to Orders > Shipping templates
United Kingdom
Go to Shipping > Shipping templates
Set up areas where you deliver and define maximum order weight along with the max weight shipping fee if the order weight exceeds the maximum defined weight
Select a preferred shipping option
For more information on TikTok Shop Shipping, please refer to the guide Setting Up Shipping in TikTok Shop Seller Center
United States
Go to Orders > Shipping options
United Kingdom
Go to Shipping > Shipping options
Set up taxes
United States
Go to My Account > Account settings > Taxes
United Kingdom
Go to My Account > Account settings > Taxes
Configure AfterShip Feed settings
1. Create category mapping
First, before syncing your products, you should manually map the product category between your eCommerce platform stores and TikTok Shop with AfterShip Feed.
If you edit the categories in your eCommerce platform stores' admin, it would take 30 minutes to see the changes in our app.
Only one category can be selected for each product.
2. Create category templates
If you want to automate the product mapping process, create category templates.
Set custom rules to automatically map your products to TikTok Shop categories
Any new products you add will be automatically categorized based on your rules
Streamline the process of adding product information by applying all required information at once, instead of for each product individually
Is it possible to edit mapped categories?
Go to the Category mapping list page, where you’ll see how many products you’ve mapped so far
Select the category for which you want to make changes and then click Edit
Choose the product for which you want to change the category mapping and click Remove. Once done, choose the product again for a new category mapping
You won’t be able to change category mapping using our application if a product has already been synced to your TikTok Shop. However, you can change the product’s category from the TikTok Shop Seller Center, but it would cause failure in creating orders on your eCommerce platform stores.
2. Sync and link products
Once the category mapping is done for all your products, you can sync them to your TikTok Shop. They will be treated as new product listings after the syncing.
Go to the Product syncing page (Only products with category mapping will be displayed)
Select the products and click Sync products
You can perform a bulk action by selecting all the SKUs of one product and syncing them in one go. Of course, you can choose specific SKUs if you only want to sell certain product variants on your TikTok Shop.
Use the Link Products feature if you have already uploaded products from TikTok Shop Seller Center and want to manage orders placed on your TikTok Shop through eCommerce platform stores. Find out more here.
If you already have a TikTok Shop with certain products and wish to sync the same products from your eCommerce platform stores, please delete your TikTok Shop products in advance to prevent duplicate product entries.
After syncing products to your TikTok Shop, you will see your products with either of the following statuses
Reviewing
Review failed
Active (We will tell you the reason why the review failed)
Once a product is synced to your TikTok Shop, it will be under review by default. You will also see the Reviewing status on your TikTok Shop Seller Center. The review time depends on the TikTok Shop platform's process.
3. Manage your orders
In AfterShip Feed Orders tab, you can easily keep track of all your orders. Additionally, if any of your orders fail to sync, you can view detailed information regarding the reasons for the failure and instructions for how to rectify the issue. This feature ensures that you stay informed about the status of all your TikTok Shop orders and are able to take appropriate actions in case of any errors or issues.
FAQs
What should you do about the failed review status?
If any of your products got rejected by the TikTok Shop, we would show the Failed review status along with the reason. If you want to modify the product information to clear the review process, edit the product fields on TikTok Shop Seller Center.
Please note that editing product fields in our application won't make a difference, as your changes will not be updated to TikTok Shop. You'll need help to file a new review request for the rejected products.
What does each product status mean?
Check this table to learn about what statuses we show and their meaning:
| Status | Status description |
|---|---|
| Not synced | When a category mapping gets done for any product, it gets a “Not synced” status by default. |
| Failed to sync | Synchronization fails when the required product field is missing or invalid. By updating the product field to the right value, you can fix the sync problem. |
| Under review | When you sync a product to TikTok Shop, it gets reviewed by the platform. Until the status turns into “Live” on TikTok Shop, you can’t sell it. |
| Failed review | This status is shown for products rejected by the TikTok Shop platform. You can check the reason on your TikTok Shop Seller Center dashboard. In this case, you must modify the product description and submit it for listing again. |
| Active | It means the product is synced to TikTok Shop and can be purchased by buyers. |
| Synced | The product is synced to TikTok Shop, but it has been unlisted. For example, the product status is deactivated, drafted, or deleted on the TikTok Shop dashboard. |
What should I do after syncing my products?
When you sync a product from your eCommerce store, all the related product fields (e.g., product titles, images, description) get synced to the TikTok Shop.
We currently support a simple product description format, including copy plain text, images, and bullet points. However, rich formats like tables, ordered lists, etc., aren’t properly displayed on TikTok Shop. Thus, we suggest checking the product description after syncing your products to the TikTok Shop and making the required modifications.
We set a default value for some fields which BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento-2, or Shopify platforms don’t support for successful product syncing
Upon successful product listing, two product fields: Price and Inventory, would be updated automatically whenever you make changes from your eCommerce platform admin. This will affect your TikTok Shop product in two ways:
If you change price and inventory from your TikTok Shop, the data would be overridden by changes you make in your eCommerce platform stores
If you modify product fields other than price and inventory, such as product name, images, etc., changes will not be updated to TikTok Shop automatically
It will take effect immediately if you change the product detail information, such as images, description, etc., on your TikTok Shop. The changes related to product detail information (other than price and inventory) from your eCommerce platform stores will not be updated to TikTok Shop's products.
When you change the product price and inventory on your Magento-2 store, it will take at most 15 minutes for changes to be applied to your TikTok Shop. For BigCommerce and WooCommerce, changes get updated immediately.
Please note that BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento-2, and Shopify slowly update the inventory information. It means you might end up doing overselling.
What are the possible reasons for a failed order syncing?
There are situations when we fail to sync orders from TikTok Shop to your eCommerce platform stores. The most common reasons for failure are:
The ordered product has been deleted from your eCommerce platform
The required fields for the order syncing are either missing or invalid from TikTok Shop
What should I know for hassle-free order management?
AfterShip Feed Order Center lets you seamlessly track and manage all your orders. Additionally, if any of your orders fail to sync, you can view detailed information regarding the reasons for the failure and instructions on how to rectify the issue. This feature ensures that you stay informed about the status of all your TikTok Shop orders and are able to take appropriate actions in case of any errors or issues. Learn more
3. Handle cancellations, returns, and refunds properly
You can check cancellations, returns, and refund information from the homepage of our app, but these cannot be processed through eCommerce platform stores' admin. These will need to be handled via TikTok Shop Seller Center.
If you cancel orders through your eCommerce platform stores' admin, this will not automatically be updated on TikTok Shop. You also have to cancel orders on TikTok Shop.
If you cancel orders through your TikTok Shop, the order status will be updated automatically in the order section of your eCommerce platform stores. However, the status will remain the same if you handle a return or refund request through your TikTok Shop.
For any help, write to our chat support team at support+feed@automizely.com.
Updated on: 29/01/2024
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