HEY.
thanks for setting us up this feed, its a bery bad that shopify and tik tok couldn’t answer this, however with around 14 hours ( i kid you not ) of simply searching, getting annoyed shouting a little at my laptop, giving up, crying inside, hiding in the corner, then saying no, i’m not giving up on this, i believe i have found a work around, its not a perfect solution, but so far for me it appears to be working without having to manually add everything and manually authorise everything, create manual shippings and all that.
so basically, as far as i can tell, the issue has been identified that shopify and tik tok seem to not support the integrations between platforms, i think there was a meeting where they sat down and said, give us loads of money, then they said nope, they realised they would look like absolute wombles if they cut each other off so they said, fine, you can advertise and you can sell stuff here, then they made it so difficult to actually do it knowing that noone would go through all this effort to actually figure it out. but alas, i claimi victory,.. sort of. anyway, here is how i did it.
on the sales channels and apps, there is an app that noone has ever heard off so would never think to look there (a cunning plan indeed baldwick) its called aftership feed for tik tok, this will basically allow you to sync stuff there, i think its something like 10 products a month on the free version (my shop isn’t active enough to do more than that so havn’t looked into price plans)
you have to map products first, this is just a fancy way to say put them in a category, and there list of catorgaries is extremly vast but doesn’t really give you the right listings, i just put the closest thing i could find to the actually description, they don’t have phone cases as a list, you also need to add some unique reference code thing, i am not experiences enough to know what a gtin number, so i just put random numbers and will change it later if needed,
but this has alowd me to actually sync stuff, which in my book is a victory!!! and noone is taking this away from me. i was so hapy when i saw that mouse mat go on my tica toka store i cried a bit with tears of joy.
hope this helps