Advanced Settings for Update Product Feed (Bigcommerce)

Auto Publish / Hide

For this feature, Track Quantity needs to be enabled. You can find this option in Stock Sync too, it is under the Quantity setting. 

1. Auto Publish Products 

It only publishes the product for the variant quantity more than zero.

(a) Do not apply: Don't make any changes

For example,
 
If don't want to make any changes to publish the products you can select this as no changes.

(b) All products in store: Auto publish all products in store if any one of the variants has a quantity of more than zero.

For example,

In your store having 50 products that have more than zero quantity, it will publish all the 50 products in your store.

(c) Matching products within a feed file: Auto publish all matching products within the feed file, but the variant quantity should be more than zero

For example, 

If the feed that scans the quantity is more than zero, it will auto publish all the products. If the supplier feeds updated 10 products with more than zero quantity, it will publish those 10 products.

2. Auto hide product for all sales channels or online store 

It only hides the product for the variant quantity is zero in all locations, and the continued selling out of stock should be disabled. 

(a) Do not apply: Don't make any changes

For example,

If you don't want to make any changes to hide the products you can select this as no changes.

(b) All products in store: Auto hide all products in store if any one of the variants has zero quantity or less than zero included in all locations. 

For example, 

In your store has 50 products that have zero quantity and continue selling out of stock is disabled, it will hide all the 50 products in your store. 

(c) Matching products within a feed file: Auto hide all matching products within the feed file but the variant quantity is zero. 

For example, 

If the feed that scans the quantity is zero or less than that, it will hide all the products. If the supplier feeds updated 10 products with zero quantity, it will hide those 10 products.

(i). Only hide products from the online store

This option hides the products from the online store instead of all sales channels. 

For example,

One of your products is in all sales channels like Facebook, Instagram, and so on. If you want to hide only in the online store so you just need to enable this option after selecting Auto hide product for all sales channels.

(ii). Include updating attributes on the product level

This option helps to update the product level with a few variants. 

For example,

If you have a product with a few variants and want to update both level prices and inve accordingly, you should enable this. 

(iii). Allow archive of duplicate products with the same product identifier

By default, it is false. The update would not apply to variants with the same product identifier unless you set it to true.

For example,

If you have a product with same product identifier and it will archive those products when you enable it. 

(iv). Don't update availability according to inventory level

By default, it will update the purchasability. Enable this option to do not update the purchasability according to the inventory level.

Out of Stock Strategy

This feature resets the quantity on the selected location to 0 for UNMATCHED products in the feed. 

There are two options for this:

1. Set out of stock to ZERO Quantity

When you enable the toggle, it will enable ALL unmatched variants. So, it will turn ALL unmatched variants from the feed file to zero quantity (out of stock). Please apply Store Product filters to ensure that not all variants become zero. 

For example:

10,000 products in the store and 100 products in the feed file. So, when you enable this option it will change all the 9,900 products become zero quantity. We recommend applying Store Product filters instead of making all the store products that do not match with the feed file become zero quantity.

Related to this above option, there is a feature Quantity zero alert. If you want to get notified of the updates that affected the store products that become zero quantity. You can use this feature to stop the update as you set the percentage. Click here to know more.