Copying, exporting and importing channels

You don't need to set up similar channels from scratch. For example, once your "Google Shopping NZ" channel works, you can copy it to make "Google Shopping AU", or copy it into another client's shop. The tools are on the channel's Settings tab under Tools.

Duplicate a channel

Duplicate channel makes a new channel with the same mapping, include and exclude rules, merge variants, categories and format options.

1. Under Duplicate channel, choose This shop or another shop in your organisation.
2. Confirm.

• In the same shop, the copy is named after the original with "(copy)" at the end, e.g. "Google Shopping NZ (copy)". In another shop, it keeps the original name.
• The copy gets its own new feed URL.
• If the original uploads to an FTP or SFTP server, the copy keeps the server details but the upload is turned off and the password isn't copied. Enter the password and turn the upload on if you need it.

You can also use Duplicate in a channel's menu on the Channels tab, which copies it into the same shop.

When you copy into another shop, check the mapping afterwards. Rules that use fields the other shop doesn't have, e.g. a metafield or a global store field, give empty values until you add those fields.

Export settings

Export settings downloads the channel's setup as a file. The file holds the mapping, include and exclude rules, merge variants, categories and format options. It doesn't hold server details or passwords.

Use it to keep a backup before a big change, or to send a setup to a colleague.

Import settings

Import settings reads an exported file into an existing channel.

• It replaces the channel's mapping, include and exclude rules, merge variants and categories with the ones in the file.
• It keeps the channel's name, feed URL, format options and upload settings.
• The file must come from a channel of the same type. For example, you can't import a Google Shopping export into a Meta channel.

Feedsmith rebuilds the feed a few seconds after the import.

Delete a channel

Under Danger zone, click Delete channel and type the channel's name to confirm. The feed URL stops working at once.