Templates are a key feature of Dropship that facilitates the data exchange of Dropship with other external systems.To access the templates, login to your dashboard, select Retailer Settings, then Product & Inventory Templates.These templates are specific to the retailer and come in two varieties, product and inventory.
Pre-existing list of global attributes that’s shared by all items and all businesses.
Retailers can use their own attribute names for the spreadsheets and will be able to see these names on the Dropship platform UI
Templates are mappings between the Dropship attributes and the attributes names defined by the retailer
Import templates are responsible for data ingestion into Dropship
Export templates can be used for extracting data from Dropship.
This allows the retailer and their suppliers to generate spreadsheets that match the template as required by other systems such as Shopify, fabric Product Catalog, and others.
Dropship automatically tries to map user-uploaded attributes with those of fabric Dropship, however, all mapping needs to be checked by the user before creating the template. There are certain attributes that are relevant for most dropship businesses and need to be mapped and added to capture key details related to dropship products.You can accept the values Dropship offers or enter your own for each column.Column Header - the name of the attribute in your fileMap To - the name of the corresponding fabric Dropship attribute
You should be able to find a similar attribute in the dropdown
In case you can’t find a match for your attribute in the list provided by fabric, please raise a request to support team
Level - this indicates whether this is a parent or individual item attribute
This field is only relevant for an import template
Defines whether the attribute is relevant for the product (the parent item) or its variants
Most attributes are relevant for items
Attributes that leveled to Products will be inherited by all of the variants automatically
Priority - dictates the order in which the attributes will appear everywhere in the platform UI and during the exportsRequired - indicate if this is a mandatory or optional attribute
This field is only relevant for product import templates.
If an attribute is mandatory in the import template, items without that attribute will show an error when imported through into Dropship.