Products

Publishing Products

To publish a product to a webshop (i.e. to synchronize product data from Business Central to your webshop), navigate to Product Information Mgt. > Catalog > Items.

The following page will appear. On this page, you can enrich your items with relevant webshop data.

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To publish an item to the webshop, simply check the field Publish to Webshop for the item you want to send.

For most webshops, once an item has been successfully synchronized, the field Webshop Product ID will be filled with the ID that the webshop assigns to that item.
Please note: not every e-commerce platform returns an actual ID. In some cases, it may be a boolean value (true/false), or, for example in Shopware, a GUID value is returned and stored in the connector.

Important for Magento users:
Before you can successfully publish a product to Magento, certain fields must be set up in Business Central:

  • You need to define an Attribute Set.

  • You must select the correct Product Type in the Web Item Extension table.

 

Download Items

If you already have an existing webshop with products set up, you can use the Tinx Connector to import this data into Business Central as well. This is done using one of the predefined Message Definitions available in the Synchronization Dashboard.
The key import is the download of product data into the TINX Webshop Product table (11205274) — a buffer table where the product relations between Business Central and the webshop are stored.

To download items, go to the Synchronization Dashboard and activate and process the XX-018 message.

If the webshop uses a SKU that does not match the Item No. in Business Central, make sure to set the correct Item No. manually in the TINX Product table.

When importing product data from the webshop, make sure to validate the following key fields in the TINX Product table:

  • SKU → Combined with the separator in the Sales Channel setup, this will split the SKU into an Item No. and Variant Code.

  • Is Downloaded → When enabled, this field indicates that additional webshop information has been successfully downloaded and stored.