How to Map Products on Your eCommerce Platform
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Once your eCommerce platform and TikTok Shop are connected to AfterShip Feed, there are certain prerequisites to be able to map your eCommerce platform products to TikTok Shop categories.
In this tutorial, we will discuss:
How to map products on Shopify
How to map products on a non-Shopify eCommerce platform
If your store is on Shopify, you need to make the following settings on the Shopify product page before you can map your products to TikTok Shop.
Log in to your Shopify account
Navigate to Products from the admin and pick a product of your choice
Change the product status to Active
Add AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop to Sales channel.
Click the {...} icon under Publishing section and select Manage sales channels
Select AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop and hit Done
This is particularly helpful for merchants who would like to show certain products exclusively on TikTok Shop and not on their online store.
If you deactivate a product on the Shopify online store, the synced product will be deactivated on TikTok Shop automatically.
For products that are already synced to your TikTok Shop, you can easily auto-deactivate TikTok products by either removing AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop from Shopify's sales channel or changing the status to Draft or Archived. It will reactivate as soon as you activate the product on Shopify.
TikTok Shop products can only be linked to Shopify products that are active and have been added to the AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop sales channel.
After installing AfterShip Feed for the first time, the system will continuously synchronize the platform's products and product categories to Feed. Typically, this process takes approximately an hour, but the exact duration depends on the number of products you have. You can view the synchronized products on the Category mapping page.
Only products that are not linked to items on your TikTok Shop can be mapped. If you've already synchronized a product with your TTS store or linked it to a product in your TikTok Shop, you won't find it on the "Category mapping" page.
Overview
Once your eCommerce platform and TikTok Shop are connected to AfterShip Feed, there are certain prerequisites to be able to map your eCommerce platform products to TikTok Shop categories.
What you’ll learn
In this tutorial, we will discuss:
How to map products on Shopify
How to map products on a non-Shopify eCommerce platform
Map products on Shopify
If your store is on Shopify, you need to make the following settings on the Shopify product page before you can map your products to TikTok Shop.
Log in to your Shopify account
Navigate to Products from the admin and pick a product of your choice
Change the product status to Active
Add AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop to Sales channel.
Click the {...} icon under Publishing section and select Manage sales channels
Select AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop and hit Done
This is particularly helpful for merchants who would like to show certain products exclusively on TikTok Shop and not on their online store.
Note
If you deactivate a product on the Shopify online store, the synced product will be deactivated on TikTok Shop automatically.
For products that are already synced to your TikTok Shop, you can easily auto-deactivate TikTok products by either removing AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop from Shopify's sales channel or changing the status to Draft or Archived. It will reactivate as soon as you activate the product on Shopify.
TikTok Shop products can only be linked to Shopify products that are active and have been added to the AfterShip Feed for TikTok Shop sales channel.
Map products on a non-Shopify eCommerce platform
After installing AfterShip Feed for the first time, the system will continuously synchronize the platform's products and product categories to Feed. Typically, this process takes approximately an hour, but the exact duration depends on the number of products you have. You can view the synchronized products on the Category mapping page.
Only products that are not linked to items on your TikTok Shop can be mapped. If you've already synchronized a product with your TTS store or linked it to a product in your TikTok Shop, you won't find it on the "Category mapping" page.
Updated on: 25/04/2024
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