Catalog Sync: Choose What Your Shops Share
Overview
Decide exactly what your shops share, from products and prices to suppliers and markups. Catalog Sync in BloomNation has seven switches under Sync settings, and you can change them any time. Turning a switch off never removes anything: items stay as they are in each shop and stop updating each other.
Change your sync settings
- In the Dashboard, go to My Shop > Multi-shop.
- In the Catalog Sync section, open Sync settings.
- Turn switches on or off.
- Click Save.
What each switch does
For a new group, Sync product prices is on and the other six are off.
| Switch | When it's on | When it's off |
|---|---|---|
| Sync products across all my shops | Each product stays the same in all your shops. Turning it on opens the setup, so you can settle matches first | Each shop manages its own products |
| Sync product prices | Standard, Deluxe and Premium prices, price descriptions and price modes stay the same in every shop | Each shop sets its own prices. Whether Deluxe or Premium is offered still stays the same |
| Sync product availability | In Stock, Enabled, delivery and pickup settings, website and marketplace visibility and blackout dates stay the same | These are copied once when a shop gets a product. After that, each shop sets its own |
| Sync product categories | Category groups you turn on in the POS stay the same in every shop. Groups with the same name are combined the first time | Category groups aren't kept the same, though synced products still bring their categories along |
| Sync ingredients | Ingredients are shared. Stock always stays separate in each shop | Each shop keeps its own ingredients |
| Sync suppliers | Suppliers are shared | Each shop keeps its own suppliers |
| Sync markups | Markups are shared | Each shop keeps its own markups |
Prices and availability only apply while product sync is on. Categories, ingredients, suppliers and markups each follow their own switch.
Turning on categories, ingredients, suppliers or markups later shares new items from then on. To share the ones you already have, use the review button on that tab, like Review ingredient matches.
Turning prices or availability back on
Turning on prices or availability updates every shop right away. Each product takes its prices (or availability) from the shop that last changed its synced details, like its name, photos or recipe.
For example, while prices were set separately, Pasadena raised Garden Party Arrangement to $99. Beverly Hills was the last shop to change its name. When you turn prices back on, every shop goes back to Beverly Hills' $89.
Catalog Sync asks you to confirm before it turns prices back on. It doesn't ask for availability, so check first: products can go on or off sale in your other shops.
What's always shared
While product sync is on, these always stay the same in every shop:
- Name, descriptions and care instructions
- Photos and video links
- Variations, recipes, the default variation and the Most Popular badge
- Categories, occasions, tax class and cross-sell rules
- Gift card settings, barcode and item number
- Archiving: archive a product in one shop and it's archived in every shop
What each shop keeps
- Customer choices (product options)
- Videos uploaded to that shop (video links still sync)
- Instacart and Uber Eats settings
- Each product's web address and sort position
- Ingredient stock
- Orders and customers
Remove a shop from the group
Uncheck the shop under Shops to sync and click Save. Catalog Sync asks you to confirm. The shop keeps its products, but they stop syncing. A group needs at least two shops, so in a group of two, turn the switches off instead.