How to use Mass Action to sync a large number of products with PIDB

This article is for anyone who needs to sync their products with our PIDB database to fill out the product information for display on a Pinogy E-Commerce website.

Products that are shown on a Pinogy E-Commerce website can have their marketing text, ingredients, nutritional information, images, and more shown on the website. These can be synced with our PIDB database to automatically fill out that information.

To sync the products, do the following steps :

Open the Products module.
Select the products you want to sync. Highlighting one and using the keyboard command CTRL-A on Windows or the keyboard command CMD-A on Mac will select all products on that page. Setting the total products per page to 500 will speed this up.
Click the Mass Action button.
Select PIDB Sync and double-click it or highlight it and click Select.

Select which items you want to sync. The most common selections for E-Commerce will be listed below in a separate image.
Click Save when done.

Check the boxes for what you would like PIDB to fill in on these products. Be careful of Description, Category, and Sub Category, as changing these may impact your store inventory setup. All others should be fine to update.

The most common settings used for syncing for E-Commerce are :

If you need help adding your Manufacturers and Brands, those can also be synced the first time to add them to all products.

The more items that are selected, the longer syncing will take. Please allow at least one hour for syncing to complete.