Moving from another website? You do not need to type anything again. Give us your old shop's address and it comes in by itself: products with prices, sizes, colours, descriptions and photos, categories with their photo and text, pages (About us, policies …), blog posts — and every old link keeps working.
Where to find it
Admin › Autopilot AI › 1-Click Bulk Import from any Website. Anyone whose role can add products (Products & stock) sees it.
Step by step
- Type your old website's address, for example myshop.com, and press Check the website.
- You see which kind of shop it is (Shopify, WooCommerce or another website) and the first products found. Check that they look right.
- If it is your own old website, prove it is yours (see below) and press Check now — then its pages, blog posts and old links come too.
- Under What to bring, tick what you want: Products, Only new products, Categories with photo and text (Shopify and WooCommerce), Pages, Blog posts, Old links.
- Choose the options:
- How many products — 50 at first; start with a few, a big website takes long.
- Show in the shop — publish at once, or keep them hidden while you check.
- Price × rate — 1 keeps the same prices. If the old site sells in dollars, type the dollar rate (for example 122).
- Stock for each product — new products get this stock (100 at first); sold-out ones come in with 0.
- Photos per product — how many photos to copy (the first is the main photo).
- Products already here — update their prices and texts, or leave them as they are. With Only new products ticked this choice is greyed out: products already in your shop are not touched.
- Category when there is none — empty means "Imported".
- Autopilot AI touch-up — new names, new descriptions in your words and a white-background main photo, in the language you choose. Billed in AI Usage & bills.
- Tick the box that you have the right to sell these products (and will change them if the website is not yours), then press Start the import. You can leave the page: the import goes on by itself and you see the count of new, updated, left-out and failed products.
The rule for other people's websites
Products and categories can come from any website. If it is not your own website, you must change (edit) the products — names, descriptions and photos — before selling them, and you must have the right to sell them (for example your supplier's products). You tick this before every import; what you import is your own responsibility, not eCommerce Autopilot's. The AI touch-up makes this quick.
Prove that the website is yours
Pages, blog posts and old links come only from your own website. The page shows your own code and two ways, with or between them — one is enough:
- A. A line on the home page. Shopify: Online Store › Themes › Edit code ›
theme.liquid, paste the line just before</head>and save. WordPress: a header code plugin, or your theme's header. - B. A TXT record where your domain is managed (Cloudflare, Namecheap …) with the value
ecap-verify=…shown on the page. A new record can take a few minutes, sometimes an hour.
If the domain is already connected and proven (or bought here) in Settings › Your domain, nothing more is needed. Without proof, products and categories still come in. If a page or blog post is already in your shop, you choose: keep yours, or replace it with the old website's.
Old links keep working
Each old address (for example /products/…, /collections/…, /pages/about, /blogs/news/…) is sent to its new page here with a 301 redirect. When you point your domain to us, visitors and Google land on the right page. You see them in Auto SEO with AI › Redirects.
Which websites work
- Shopify — products with sizes and colours, collections as categories, pages, policies and blog posts.
- WooCommerce (WordPress) — products, categories (with sub-categories), pages and blog posts.
- Other shops — most shops that show their products to Google (a sitemap and product details on each page). Sizes and colours may need adding by hand.
Good to know
- Running it again does not make copies: a product already in the shop (imported before, or with the same name) is updated — or left alone if you chose so.
- If the website is busy or asks us to slow down, the import keeps its place and tries again a minute later.
- New products stop at your package's product limit; a bigger package takes them all.
- Only one import runs at a time in a shop.
- A shop behind a password page cannot be read.