Shuttle provides multiple powerful ways to automatically match products and variations between your Etsy and Shopify stores. Once products and variations are matched, Shuttle can seamlessly update stock levels, prices, and more.
What Are Matched Products?
Matched products are items recognized by Shuttle as the same product across Etsy and Shopify. Matching products helps Shuttle synchronize data effectively, ensuring accurate inventory, consistent pricing, avoiding duplication, and streamlined order processing.
Importance of Matched Products:
Enables accurate inventory synchronization.
Facilitates consistent pricing and updates across platforms.
Reduces manual matching and update efforts.
Prevents duplications during product transfers.
Ensures accurate line item assignment for transferred orders.
Allows the automatic assigning of reviews to Shopify products.
Methods of Product Matching
1. Matching Products & Variations by SKUs
When your products and variations have unique SKUs that are identical across Etsy and Shopify, Shuttle can easily match them.
How to Enable:
Navigate to your Shuttle dashboard.
Go to the Smart Matcher settings.
Enable "Match products & variations using SKUs".
Note: If you have duplicate SKUs, it's recommended to keep this option disabled to avoid mismatches.
2. Matching Products by Their Titles
If your products don't have unique SKUs, Shuttle can use product titles for matching:
Shuttle compares the Etsy product's title with Shopify products.
If an exact title match is found, the products are automatically matched.
This matching works in both directions (Etsy ↔ Shopify).
Important:
Ensure your product titles are distinct for each product.
If titles are not unique, avoid enabling this option to prevent incorrect matches.
Priority: Title-based matching takes priority over SKU-based matching. Shuttle attempts title-based matching first and only resorts to SKU-based matching if no title matches are found.
How to Enable:
Visit the Smart Matcher settings in Shuttle.
Enable "Match products by their titles".
3. Matching Variations by Their Names
Variation names are constructed from their combined options (e.g., a "Red / Medium" T-shirt). If your Etsy and Shopify variations share identical names, Shuttle can automatically match these variations even without matching SKUs.
Why this is useful:
Saves significant manual effort when variations don't have matching SKUs.
Allows accurate updating of stock and prices once matched.
You can subsequently use Shuttle's automatic SKU generator for unmatched variations.
Important Consideration:
Avoid enabling if your variation names are identical across multiple variations, as it may lead to incorrect matches (e.g., “Blue / Blue”).
How to Enable:
Open Smart Matcher settings in Shuttle.
Activate "Match variations using their names".
4. Manual Matching of Products
If your products don't have matching SKUs or titles, you can manually match products:
Locate the product you'd like to match and click "Match product".
Use the search field to locate the corresponding product on the other platform.
Once found, click "Match to Product" to establish the connection.
Manual matching ensures precise product linking even in cases where automatic methods aren't possible.
Need Assistance?
If you encounter any issues or have further questions about product matching, please contact our support team—we’re always happy to help!