How can I bulk upload images for product import?

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Hi John,

This app looks great - do you have any feedback/examples of how stores have used it?

Also, how would this work in line with the Product upload CSV?

Whats the cost for the app?

Thanks

Craig

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The App is primarily for matching and uploading images into Shopify without the need to use the CSV or host the images online somewhere.

This is particularly good if you have lots of SKUs

The app assumes you have the product information loaded into Shopify. As most people who have this many skus probably are sending them from an inventory or POS application like Vend. You then can use the app to match and upload.

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Currently the price is $49.00 USD, If you have lots of SKUs this will save you hours of work. Our team love it.

We have had a number of beta testers who have 1000s of SKUs and seemed to work fine for them.

Documentation here:

https://www.notion.so/dgrm/Image-Uploader-for-Shopify-406e3f3e79e145eb98dbbd2d4d252681

Download here:

https://www.diagram.one/image-uploader-for-shopify

Feedback welcome

Cheers

John

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HI Jason

I followed these tips as well as the description in the Help Centre. I am trying to upload a product with 90 variants. I left the fields blank as described in the Help.

When importing, it told me that I am about to import 90 products…I thought I would go ahead and see what happens.

The product uploaded (only one product, not 90), but only with the first variant. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you

Riana

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Hi,

I got this to work over the weekend, but made sure that I did the following…

  1. Created / Imported the product using the Product bulk upload tool
  2. Uploaded 1 image for each product the normal way through the settings/admin
  3. I then had to create the file for the image as only the SKU number and _1. If I created anything longer, even if it included the SKU number, it wouldn’t match. So my image files are called 10000020_2, 10000020_3 etc

When I’ve made these changes – it works perfectly.

Thanks

Craig

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We offer an image management tool that allows you to create buckets for your images, upload your Shopify bulk upload image files, and then auto-populate the image URLs in your template file.

Have a look at https://BucketLynx.com.

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I see it is an old question but I would like to add a reply for the people who are coming to the topic from Google.

We recently created a Shopify App which is solving this problem.

This app can save you a lot of time by automatically uploading all your product images from Google Drive to your products.

Your product images should be names the same as the SKUs of your products. Then it will take just a few minutes to upload all images at once.

We have a free plan take a look into it. https://apps.shopify.com/smart-image-upload

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Jason -

I know this is an older thread. I had one follow-up question. I am using the second method that you suggested. The functionality works but the image is placed in the description area rather than in the variant area. How do I get it to be in the variant area and not in the product description area?

Thanks!

John

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You need to have the url of the image in the same row as the variant details for it to be attached to the variant.

I find the best way to make these types of adjustments is to have one product set up.the way you want in your store, and then export the csv of that product so you can use that to recreate the rest of the products.

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Now how hard was that to show someone?

WELL THANK YOU .

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Is one method better than the other if you have a lot of images? I don’t want to make my site slow to load, but of course I want to have tons of images available

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any suggestions for hosting images with static URLs?

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If your theme template is done properly, the number of images shouldn’t make any difference because they are “lazy loaded” which means they are only loaded when they appear. You don’t have to be concerned with that on most templates.

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If you want to use static image urls, then you need to insert the photos into the description field. You can’t generally host images off site for product images, because that would slow down your shopify store.

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I’ve loaded products (thousands) using CSV file through Matrixify but all without images. I have images in a separate folder. I’ve uploaded the images through admin settings in files named via the SKU numbers. Now I am wondering, is there a way to bulk upload images to the matching product? Or will I have to continue to do 1 by 1? Or copy and paste the link 1 by 1? Both are lengthy

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We built a public app that does exactly what you guys are looking to do:

https://apps.shopify.com/photo-finish

We were manually uploading photos to merchants stores and building hacky excel macros and decided to just build something. In order to use it you’d have to upload the images to Dropbox but then the app could match everything by SKU. Once you did this bulk import you could continue to use Matrixify and our app and you’ll never have to upload images one by one.

Happy to answer any questions.

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Hey @KonoHome

Renars here from Matrixify.

If your image’s names are SKUs and already are uploaded to Shopify Files, then you sure can construct a file in Excel with formulas that would import your Images to Products.

All images in Files would have the same URL apart from the actual image name.
Here we do have a great tutorial explaining how you could set up such an import file - https://matrixify.app/tutorials/bulk-import-images-shopify-from-computer/#HowtogetURLsforuploadedfiles

The tutorial explains a general idea on how to do that which should be simple enough if image names are SKUs.
If you need further assistance with it, please reach out to us directly and we will help you with that!

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File upload via CSV is a nice feature, but how can we delete these files? They do not show under Files.

When changing products images, not deleting these files could result in storing a lot of useless files (100,000-200,000 initial image files after some time could easily become millions).

Doesn’t this big number of images slow down the store?

Is there any native way to delete these csv-imported images?

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@OluendEN Sorry about the late reply.

Product images indeed do not show up in Shopify Files. They are removed from Shopify CDN as the image is removed from the product or the product is deleted.

So you do not need to make any other actions to specifically delete images from the server.

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In order to bulk delete image files from products, you need to use the Shopify CSV upload feature for Product listings and delete the spreadsheet rows with the images you want to remove.

I noticed in Matrixify that they have a way to specify File deletions in their CSV upload template, but not sure if they have something similar for Product images.

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Yes Matrixify does do image deletion (and more) via CSV for Products.