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Getting Your Data Ready
CatalogueLINK Upload's primary function is to connect to your accounting system and import product data from it before uploading it to your website.
For CatalogueLINK Upload to do this, the accounting system product data needs to be "linked" up against fields on the website.
- Here we have a product in MYOB AccountRight Live. Note the Item Number and Name fields
Below we have this product on the website after it has been mapped correctly:
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CatalogueLINK Upload facilitates the connection of accounting system fields to website fields.
Selecting Accounting System Fields for the website
Your mappings will be setup in Setup – Catalogue Fields during the configuration session:
- On the left hand side you have the website field (FieldName) and on the right the corresponding accounting system field (DataSourceField).
- The website field Product Code will show data entered in Item Number in MYOB AccountRight Live
FieldName: The website field that data from the accounting system will be matched against- Item Code is the field name for Item codes on the site and the data needs to come from somewhere in the accounting system for items
- DataSourceField: This is the field in your accounting system where CatalogueLINK Upload will retrieve data from for the FieldName field
- Item Code will map against the accounting system field Item Number
- Select a FieldName row
- Click the Available Fields dropdown in the top right hand corner to display all the fields available
- Select the desired mapping and press Save
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Note: There may be times where you want to enter your own data for a field manually. This is where you can use ‘Enter my own’ for the field mapping selection. |
For more information:
Turning Fields On or Off
Importing Products
Once these fields are mapped and saved, click Import and perform our initial import of products:
- Click Import and select Catalogue Items
- When this process has completed you will see a listing of what CatalogueLINK Upload has imported
- Your products should then appear in the Items listing with a status of New (when the product is new to CatalogueLINK Upload) or Modifying (when a product's data has changed since the last import).
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