Ways to add products
In the dashboard
Create a product by hand, filling in its name, brand, product type, and
attributes. Best for one-off additions and corrections.
Paste a product URL
Point MerchantOps at a product page and it creates the product, then
enriches it from that page and the brand site.
Upload a CSV
Bring in many products at once from a spreadsheet export. Columns map to
product fields and attributes; the batch runs as a tracked Job.
Import connectors
Scheduled, automated feeds — for example a nightly file drop over SFTP —
that keep your catalog in sync with a partner or ERP system.
The API
Create products programmatically, one at a time or in batches, from your own
systems or the
mo CLI.Which method to use
| You want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Add or fix a single product | The dashboard |
| Enrich from a known product page | Paste a product URL |
| Load a batch from a spreadsheet | CSV upload |
| Keep a catalog continuously in sync | Import connectors |
| Wire ingestion into your own systems | The API |
There is also a shared Lakehouse — a knowledge base
of product, technology, and document data that enrichment draws on. It is not a
way to add products to your catalog directly; it is a source enrichment consults
to fill them in.
What happens after ingestion
However a product arrives, the flow is the same:The product is created and validated
MerchantOps checks it against its product type
and initializes its attributes.
Enrichment runs, if requested
You can ask for enrichment at ingestion time — searching the
Lakehouse, scraping the brand site, and
generating missing content. See How enrichment works.
Progress is tracked as a Job
Batch imports and enrichment create a Job with live counts
of processed, succeeded, and failed items, plus per-row error detail.
Uploading products
Column mapping, batch imports, and how uploads become products.
Import connectors
Scheduled feeds that import a partner or ERP catalog automatically.
The Lakehouse
The shared knowledge base enrichment reads from.
Jobs
Track the progress of any batch import or enrichment run.