What's New: Product Information Management in Shopify Connector (2026 release wave 1)

Overview

The video walks through product information management updates in the Shopify connector. It covers what is exported from Business Central to Shopify: item variant images, item attributes as product options, and automatic assignment to collections based on item categories, including collections used for tax override.

It then shows the “add item as Shopify variant” function, which presents a flat Business Central item list as variants with options in Shopify, with per-variant prices synchronized. Last, it shows importing products from Shopify, where images are synchronized and marketing text can be brought in when a toggle on the Shopify shop card is enabled.

Key points

• Item variants can have images, and these are exported to Shopify with the product so each variant shows its own image in the online store.
• The item attributes setup page gets a new column for choosing which attributes export as Shopify options. It only shows when the Shopify connector is installed with stores connected.
• Not every attribute is exported as an option. Some are only added to the product description.
• Custom product collections are configured on the Shopify shop card. You can start by importing collections from Shopify, then use rules such as item category to decide which collections items are assigned to on export.
• Items with reduced or non-standard tax rates can be put in a collection configured as tax override, so Shopify applies the correct tax.
• The ‘add item as Shopify variant’ function presents separate Business Central items as variants of a parent item in Shopify. This is useful when you keep a flat item list, for example because assembly BOMs can only be connected to the parent item. Each item keeps its own price, so variant prices can differ.
• Importing products from Shopify synchronizes images. Marketing text is also imported when the marketing text toggle is enabled on the Shopify shop card.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• page 31 “Item List” at 0:06
• page 7500 “Item Attributes” at 1:39
• page “Shopify shops” at 2:54
• page “Shopify shop card” at 2:54
• page “list of products” at 4:02

Not found in BC28-30: page “Shopify shops”, page “Shopify shop card”, page “list of products”.

Quotes

• 1:01 “this item has four variants. And each variant has image. So, yeah, this image is now exported to Shopify as well”
• 1:39 “you can see the new column. It’s only visible if you have Shopify uh connector installed with uh uh some stores connected”
• 3:06 “you can decide which collection you want to assign to items as soon as they exported to Shopify from Business Central”
• 3:48 “you can add item to specific collection, which is configured as a tax override”
• 5:20 “One of them it’s maybe using assembly bill of material, which can be only connected to the parent item, and not to variant.”
• 5:32 “we can utilize function which is called add item as a Shopify variant, and add couple of more items”
• 6:00 “you can notice that price is changing as well. So, apparently the number of seats and number and price is very much related.”
• 7:02 “Now we got the marketing text as well. Because we have a toggle about marketing text, now you can get it from Shopify as”

Disclaimers in the video

• 1:49 other: It’s only visible if you have Shopify uh connector installed with uh uh some stores connected. You need to enable connector