Hey @eballas14.
I have already replied to your ticket you sent in (in the future if you could do one or the other, not both, that would be much appreciated, thanks!) but I figured I should include it here as well as it may help other users:
I’ve successfully imported products from my Amazon page to my Woocommerce inventory. Now I want to modify listings a little bit on Woocommerce (change title, make description a little different, change pictures), without syncing them back to Amazon.
* If I make any changes to a Woocommerce listing, I don’t want them to sync back to Amazon via a feed. How can I configure that?
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In order for WP-Lister to properly manage your listings on Amazon from WC, the products on Amazon must exist in WP-Lister or else there is no way for WP-Lister to manage those listings.
And when you have Amazon listings in WP-Lister’s database, WP-Lister becomes the central database where all updates made to the WC products will be sent to Amazon to update the listings there as well. So you cannot really have one (managing your listings) without having the other (updating product details). This is explained further in this doc: Inventory Sync
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?One of WP-Lister’s core features is submitting products and changes from WooCommerce to Amazon. This is what WP-Lister does “out of the box” – and it’s not required to enable the inventory sync option to do so. When you update a product in WooCommerce, all the data that has already been sent to Amazon will be submitted again with your update. That’s why when you use WP-Lister, WooCommerce will become your “central database”.
If you set the “Update interval” to “Manually” in WP-Lister’s general settings that will stop WP-Lister from automatically submitting feed updates to Amazon when WC products are updated, but that would also stop all background tasks from taking place, like updating stock from sales (if you decide to use Pro).
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?* Is there a way to retain these local changes but at the same time sync fields that I haven’t modified from Amazon? For example, I changed the title of my listing on Woocommerce after importing it from Amazon, but I didn’t touch the dimensions attribute. So if there are changes to my Amazon listing, I want only the attributes I didn’t touch, product dimensions in this case, to sync to Woocommerce.
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?That is not possible. Amazon requires specific fields to be provided in order to submit a feed. If they were omitted the feeds would fail due to required fields missing.
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?With that said, you can provide some custom values in WP-Lister that would be used for your Amazon listings instead of the WC fields.
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In regards to prices:
1.) Within the edit product page under the “Amazon Options” section you will see a “Amazon Price” field, this field allows you to enter a price that will over ride all other settings. Whatever you enter in this field will be used as the Amazon price for the listing and no matter what you change your WC price to, it won’t effect the Amazon price, only this field will. If you are using a variable product then you will need to view each variation where you will see an amazon price field for each variation.
2.) In the listing profile you can set a price as well under the “Pricing Options” field. Any listing assigned to this listing profile will use those pricing options.
3.) If you have your Amazon prices located in a meta field or another field, then you can visit the listing profile’s “Standard Price” field, click the magnifying glass next to the field and select the field where the custom prices are stored for each product.
If there is no custom price set anywhere in the above 3 locations, then by default the WC price is used on Amazon unless you have enabled a sale price in WC which if you don’t want sale prices used on amazon you would follow this guide: I don’t want to use sale prices for Amazon. You could also use a compatible CSV plugin to populate the “Amazon Price” fields in bulk if you wish.
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?For the title, you can use the “Amazon title” field in the edit product page which will have WP-Lister use that title provided in the “Amazon title” field instead of the WC title.
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?And lastly, you can use the “Custom product description” field located within the “Advanced Amazon options” section of the edit product page to provide a custom description on Amazon instead of using the WC description.
Kind regards,
John
