As a datafeed management company we currently download all the product data from Shopify, process this (e.g remove products which are out of stock, add the color of the product to the title etc) and send the modified data to “export channels” such as Amazon and Google Shopping. We don’t push any data to Shopify, only retrieve it every day.
Some of our Shopify customers store data in the meta data fields, for example color, sku’s etc. and our customers want to use this information as to better optimize their ads on the “export channels”.
We streamline this process as much as possible as to make it as easy as possible for the customer. When a customer changes an item’s description (or stock changes after a sell), this will automatically be changed on the export channels. We want to do something similar for the meta data fields.
Some customers have a lot of products in their stores and thus getting all the meta_fields for all the products every day would be a huge amount of api calls.
We are aware that the amount of api calls could be reduced by giving a customer an option to fetch the meta_data fields in Channable instead of doing this every day. However, we would like to keep our strucuture the same for all ecommerce shops and this is not required for other shops. Furthermore, this would require a big change in our backend structure.
I hope this clears things up.