A. Product Overriding settings.
This tab settings help you to set rules for overridden and reimported products.
1. Keep Woo product: Instead of deleting an old product to create a new one, it will update the overridden old product’s prices/stock/attributes/variations based on the new data. This way, data such as reviews, metadata… will not be lost.
Note: When reimporting products, this option will always be considered as “Enabled”
2. Link existing variations only: When this option is enabled, you don’t need to split a product before overriding unavailable products. Just try overriding unavailable products one by one, our plugin will not create new variations anymore.
3. Keep SKU: During the product override process, the SKU in WooCommerce will be updated to match the new product ID. Enable this option to keep the SKU as the original one
4. Override title: Enable if you want automatically set to replace the title of the overridden product with the new product’s title
5. Override video: If the old product has a video, replace it with the new one’s video when overriding
6. Override images: Enable if you want automatically set to replace images and gallery of overridden product with new product’s images and gallery, it’ll delete the old product images when overriding.
7. Override specifications: AliExpress specifications are imported to WooCommerce Additional information, replace the old one with the new one, ensure to enable “Import specifications” if you want to edit the product specification before importing.
8. Override description: Enable if you want automatically set to replace description of overridden product with new product’s description and short description
9. Hide options: Do not show these options when overriding product
B. Proceed overriding a product.
Go to Imported, search for the product which you want to override
Step 1: Find and copy URL of an alternative product on AliExpress that you want to override by this product.
Step 2: Click on Override button.
Step 3: A popup appears and you will add the product URL of that alternative product.
Step 4: Another popup appears asking you some configurations.
- Keep Woo product: Enable this option if you want to keep all information of the existing products except the requested information below.
- Replace product title: Title of the replaced product will override the existing product’s.
- Replace description and short description: Description and short description of the replaced product will override the existing product’s.
- Replace product image and gallery: Image and gallery of the replaced product will override the existing product’s.
- Save my choices and do not show these options again (You can still change this in the Product Overriding tab of this plugin setting): Save those above settings and will apply for next replacement, or you can go to Product Overriding tab to change the settings.
Step 5: Another popup appears asking you to change in the attributes of the overridden product.
Note: By selecting replacement, new variation will be created by modifying respective overridden variation. Overridden variations with no replacement selected will be deleted.
- Overridden items: The Attributes of the existing product.
- Found in unfulfilled orders: Indicate whether any existing order on WooCommerce included this attribute of the existing product.
- Replacement: Select the attribute of the replaced product that you want to override the respective attribute of the existing product.
Empty trash: This feature helps to quickly remove all trash with one click or remove each product in the trash one by one.
