Hello! We’re on a marketplace model and transitioning to a new platform. This will involve uploading new product pages to replace old ones, but all products will be identical. This could cause issue with merchandising automations and reporting. Is there a way to backfill sales data from old products pages to new ones if it’s going to the exact same product? Any tools or apps that could facilitate it?
Topic summary
A marketplace is migrating to a new platform and needs to upload new product detail pages (PDPs) for identical products. The concern is preserving historical sales data to avoid disrupting merchandising automations and reporting.
Key Challenge:
- Shopify assigns unique IDs to each product, preventing direct transfer of sales history between old and new product pages.
Recommended Solutions:
- Preferred approach: Edit existing products rather than creating new ones to retain sales history.
- Alternative workaround: Link old and new products using SKUs or metafields, then use third-party reporting tools (Glew, Daasity, Google Sheets) to merge historical data for analytics and automation purposes.
The platform’s architecture doesn’t support native sales data backfilling between different product IDs.
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Shopify doesn’t let you move sales history from one product to another — each new product gets a new ID. If possible, edit the existing product instead of creating a new one. Otherwise, you can link old/new products by SKU or metafield and use reporting apps (like Glew, Daasity, or even Google Sheets) to merge the data for analytics and automations.
Best regards,
Sinh Developer, from Tipo