Here we will take a look at how to make scheduled exports to Google Sheets from Shopify. You can use this to have always the newest exported information for better and automated report constructing
Steps exporting to Google Sheets
1. Setup export
At the very top of the new export page, you can select the export format. For this task we would need to chose an export format – ‘Matrixify: CSV‘
Then you can go further and select checkboxes with information that you wish to export to Google Sheets. Here we will use product information, but you can also apply this tutorial for any other export combination.
2. Configure export options
Here in the export options we will need to do two things – configure our export to run on specific times and set the custom file name for the export. We will need this to ensure that our exported file link is always the same.
- Select option Repeat every: 1 hour until cancelled. But you can choose any other time interval for your scheduled export.
- And we will set Custom File name to – ‘MatrixifyProductsExport’
- Uncheck – Zip CSV files.
- Press ‘Export‘
3. Copy exported file link and make public downloads available
Head into Matrixify settings in your store and in section “Security” select the checkbox Allow downloading your files by external services.
This is needed so that file can be downloaded from the URL using the link by other services than the user or the store where the file was created and so that you can copy the file link from the app.
Go back into your export job and copy the exported files link by right-clicking the ‘Download Exported File‘ button and select the option ‘Copy link address‘.
4. Create a new Google Sheets sheet
Head over to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ and select ‘Blank’ sheet.
5. Use a formula to automatically get data from the exported file
Now we can check the exported files link that we copied.
https://app.excelify.io/files/excelify-renars/12349b7a4c12c12323a12345adbc5e8d/MatrixifyProductsExport.csv?job=49579283&kind=exported
As you can see there are specific job details at end of the URL, we would need to remove those from the link so that Google Sheets do not download specific job, but always newest file with that name.
So the link would look like this.
https://app.excelify.io/files/excelify-renars/12349b7a4c12c12323a12345adbc5e8d/MatrixifyProductsExport.csv
Now that we have correct link, we can create formula.
In cell A1 use following formula =IMPORTDATA(). In this formula, you need to paste the link you copied from ‘Download Export File’ button, so it looks something like this –
=IMPORTDATA("https://app.excelify.io/files/excelify-renars/12349b7a4c12c12323a12345adbc5e8d/MatrixifyProductsExport.csv")
Success!
Now you have the newest data always at hand and always in the same place. It’s worth noting that Google Sheets will only automatically export IMPORTDATA function every hour so, there is no reason to set your scheduled exports too often.
Good to know!
- Afterwards, you can construct another sheet named ‘Products’ and reference information from this imported sheet to construct a file to import back into Matrixify from Google Sheet. More info about how to import from Google Sheets.
- A maximum of 50 IMPORTDATA calls are supported on a single spreadsheet.
- If you have been struck with the IMPORTDATA size limit, then these steps can help you to get around it:
- Set up multiple CSV exports with the same checkboxes, but apply a filter for each, in an example, export the Products whos price is less than 100 and Products whos price is greater or equal to 100.
- Append two IMPORTDATA functions with an array.
- You can check your scheduled export jobs when you click on ‘History & Schedule’ in the Export window.
- Google Sheets will refresh =importdata function only every 1 hour. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/58515?hl=en
- If you run into any issues or have some questions feel free to contact us – https://excelify.io/contact-us/
- Read more about what you can achieve in Matrixify How to Export Shopify Products tutorial.
- Read Matrixify tutorial on how to export data from Shopify with custom columns.
