Tick Only new products before you press Start the import. Products your shop already has are left exactly as they are — price, text, photos and stock — and only the products you do not have yet come in.
Where to find it
Admin › Autopilot AI › 1-Click Bulk Import from any Website, in the What to bring row, right after Products. Anyone whose role can add products (Products & stock) can use it.
Step by step
- Type the old website's address and press Check the website.
- Under What to bring, tick Only new products.
- The Products already here choice turns grey, with the note "Only new products is ticked: products already in your shop are left as they are."
- Set How many products, Stock for each product and the other options as usual.
- Tick the agreement box and press Start the import.
How it works
For each product on the old website, the import looks for it in your shop in two ways:
- Same source — it came in from the same product on that website in an earlier import of your shop.
- Same name — your shop already has a product with exactly that name.
If either is found, the product is left out with the note "already in the store" and counted under Left out. Nothing in it changes. All other products come in as new ones.
Example: Rangdhanu Fashion imported 200 products last month and has since added 30 new ones on its old site. With Only new products ticked, the 200 stay as they are (including the prices Rangdhanu changed by hand), and the 30 new ones come in.
Good to know
- How many products counts new products only, because nothing is updated. With 50 chosen, you get up to 50 new products.
- Your package's product limit also counts only products that are really added.
- The tick is for products. Categories, pages and blog posts follow their own ticks; for pages and posts you still choose "Keep mine" or "Replace mine".
- A product left out does not get a new old-link redirect in this import.
- Without the tick, Products already here decides: Update their prices and texts or Leave them as they are. "Leave them as they are" works the same way for products already in the shop.
Common problems
- A new product was left out as "already in the store". Your shop has a product with the same name. Rename one of them, then run the import again.
- Prices did not change on old products. That is what this tick does. Untick it and choose Update their prices and texts to update them.