Shopify - Product Option Settings – Accumula Support

Product option settings provide control over the source of critical product and variant attributes, and help dictate how the integration treats web products archived or untagged in your point of sale. The options vary somewhat depending on which point of sale you are using.

Below are the preset settings for most Lightspeed Retail users. Our Connect Plus and Scale plans offer customization of your product option settings.

SKU Source

SKU Source controls which field from point of sale will be sent to the Shopify variant SKU field. This helps differentiate between variants. The choices are:

SKU
- Lightspeed Retail: Custom SKU
- Lightspeed Onsite: Product Code
- Heartland Retail: Item Number
UPC
- Lightspeed Retail or Onsite: UPC
- Heartland: This can be any item custom field (text), but note that it will be associated to Shopify Barcode as well.
Manufacturer SKU
- Lightspeed Retail: Manufacturer SKU
ProductID
- Lightspeed Retail: System ID
- Lightspeed Onsite: Product ID

Vendor Source

For businesses using Lightspeed Retail or Lightspeed Onsite this allows you to determine if you want to use the product Vendor or Manufacturer as the source for Shopify Vendor. Most businesses use Shopify Vendor as a brand field so the default is to source Vendor from Manufacturer.

In Lightspeed Retail the field is now referred to as "Brand".
In Lightspeed Onsite the field is called "Family".

Heartland Retail clients can choose the source for Vendor in the Accumula Dashboard under your Heartland Retail settings.

Set Price and Set Compare At Price

These fields determine which pricing levels from point of sale will map to variant price and variant compare at price in Shopify. They're often used to control sale pricing in Shopify. Price is typically what customers pay today, and compare at price is generally the higher price from when the item isn't on sale.

In most Shopify themes the following is true. Your theme may handle prices differently.

If the price is lower than the compare at price the product will appear as "on sale".
If the price from point of sale equals 0, the value for compare at price will display as the price instead.
If price and compare at price are the same the product won't appear to be "on sale".

Notes about Pricing Levels

Lightspeed Retail always has at least a $0 value for every pricing level, and most point of sale solutions report a blank price as $0. When Accumula creates or updates Shopify products or variants the compare at price will always be set as the value received from your point of sale.

Pricing levels from Lightspeed Retail will show up in both dropdown menus.

Heartland users will see the options as Price or Online Price. The source for prices are set in your Accumula dashboard under Heartland settings.

If you don't want the prices to be different the same pricing level can be saved to both price and compare at price.

Weight Unit

Weight Unit determines the weight unit that will be associated to the variant weight sent to Shopify. There are four standard options: g, kg, lb, and oz.

A fifth option "None" will cause Shopify to associate your Shopify account's default unit of measure for weights to any weight values set or updated by Accumula.

If update weight is set to off this setting only applies when Accumula creates products or variants in Shopify.

Image Alt Text Source

Image Alt Text Source maps one of two different options to the image alt text of each image.

First Option
- This is the variant's first "Option" name. In most accounts this will be the color of the variant. For single products this will sync no alt text.
Web Short Description
- This syncs the product's web short description from your point of sale to the image alt text.

Important: Image Updates AND Image Alt Text Updates must be enabled for Image Alt Text to sync at all.

Archived Product Action

This setting determines what action will be taken when an synced product in your point of sale is archived or has one of the web tags removed.

The name of this setting will appear differently depending on your POS solution.

Lightspeed Retail or Heartland users will see this setting as the "Archived Product Action".

Lightspeed Onsite users it will see this setting as the "Non-Current Product Action".

The options for this setting are Ignore, Hide, or Delete.

Ignore
To protect against accidental deletions, the default setting is Ignore. In this case, no action is taken.
Hide
This mode will unpublish products from your Shopify "Online store". You can delete or republish them later.

Note: Update Visibility must be enabled for the Hide action to work. If Update Visibility is not enabled the integration will act as if set to Ignore.
Note: This action will only work for matrices, grids, or single products (linked to Shopify products without variants). Shopify Variants cannot be unpublished independently.
Delete
If you would like synced products that become archived or untagged to be deleted from Shopify, you may set this to Delete. Be sure that all of your synced products are active, tagged, and/or set to sell on webstore before choosing Delete.

Note: Product data manually added to Shopify is not saved by the integration. Please consider your risk of data loss before setting the integration to Delete.