Release Notes

On this page, you can see a list of all released changes in the Matrixify app.

This list is updated weekly, to get notified about the changes as soon as they happen, follow Matrixify Slack workspace #whats-new channel.

2024

2024, July

2024-07-01

• Fix: Import UI: Repeated and Import Again import jobs adjusted the included/selected import sheet if all other sheets failed to import, instead of using previous import jobs state for what sheets are selected to be imported.

2024, June

2024-06-27

• Fix: Import Products: should not lose exotic connector symbols when saving product handle, when not transliterating handle to English characters.
• Export & Import Metaobjects: added Metaobject field type [customer_reference].

2024-06-26

• Fix: Import Products: should not lose eastern encoding numbers when saving product handle, when not transliterating handle to English characters.
• UI: Updated to the latest Shopify Polaris UI version.

2024-06-25

• Export & Import Companies: optimized speed by making different combinations of API calls because Companies can now have up to 10,000 Locations.

2024-06-20

• Export & Import Metafields: added new Metafield type [product_taxonomy_value_reference].
• Import Metafields: when saving Metafields, sometimes Shopify fails with “Internal Error” – now we give a warning about which specific metafield that was, and save the rest that can be saved.

2024-06-18

• Fix: Import Smart Collections: should accept [Rule: Condition] as Category ID integer value.
• Export Summary sheet: Added column [Shopify Domain] and renamed column [Items] to [Sheets].

2024-06-14

• Product Category Taxonomy: updated to latest version from Shopify.

2024-06-12

• Fix: Import Products: should not fail anymore if multiple categories found by Category: Name , and the category can also be found by Category: ID or Category full path.

2024-06-11

• Import Products: if images for variants not available from Shopify, reloading images up to 3 times to see if they appeared.
• Export & Import Products: Updated category taxonomy with new Shopify extended categories.

2024-06-07

• Export Payouts: the column Transaction: Source Order Checkout ID was always empty – now it’s filled with the order checkout ID.

2024-06-05

• UI: Import Products: should not show columns that start with a word Price as recognized, unless they match the Market column names.

2024-06-04

• Export & Import: added Metafield types: [link], [list.link], [product_taxonomy_value_reference], [list.product_taxonomy_value_reference]. The [product_taxonomy_value_reference] types are appearing slowly for some developer preview stores, so in time they might appear for all the stores.
• UI: Export: show applied filters more clearly, and give a warning if applied filters do not find any items to include in the exported file.

2024, May

2024-05-30

• Import: WooCommerce API: Allow imports with weight unit kg in Hebrew.
• Import: Batch: should still allow to import if there are no files in that batch (directory).
• Import: remember the chosen Entities for sheets, and whether to import those or not, so that you don’t need to make that selection every time you import the same sheets again.
• SFTP: when connecting to SFTP server, we are now sending the following SSH client version string – so that your server can identify that it’s Matrixify app: SSH-2.0-Matrixify (https://matrixify.app/contact-us/).

2024-05-29

• Import Metafields: improved speed for deleting Metafields, and when forcing different Shopify API version.
• Export & Import Metafields: Saving Metafields via GraphQL after saving the Item. Earlier was saving with Shopify REST API.

2024-05-28

• Import Files: allow to import the [File Name] column value – to set the specific file name when creating a new file.

2024-05-23

• Fix: UI: Adjusted a visual gap between the Export group columns.
• Fix: Migrate Orders from WooCommerce: for Orders that don’t have Line Items the [Line: Type] value was empty, which failed – now setting to [Ignore].

2024-05-21

• Export & Import Discounts: now you can export and import Buy X Get Y discount with “Amount off each” value. New column: Discount Value Type to specify what is the type of the Discount Value – with allowed values Percentage , Amount Off Each , Free.

2024-05-20

• File download from Matrixify: There are sometimes cases when the Excel file cannot be saved because the data does not fit, then we automatically switch to the CSV format, zipped. So we made a change that when downloading files by specifying just the filename, then if file extension is .xlsx then check if there is newer .zip file with same file name – and provide that. So that no matter whether the Excel files was saved, or got saved as zipped CSV, you will get the most recent file version.

2024-05-15

• Fix: Import Products: was not telling proper error if [Image Attachment] column value was just an integer.
• UI: Job progress is updated every 4 seconds. After job is running longer then 30 minutes, the progress will be updated once per minute.

2024-05-14

• Fix: Export Orders & Draft Orders: Columns [Customer: Email Marketing Status] and [Customer: SMS Marketing Status] were always empty – now exporting proper values.

2024-05-10

• Export & Import Metafields: transitioned from REST API to GraphQL API. Nothing should change for the Metafields functionality, except that it should become slightly faster.

2024-05-09

• Import Products: when [Variant Weight] or [Variant Weight Unit] is empty, we did not send the empty value, now we will send – in that case, Shopify will reset those to 0.0 and store the default weight.
• Fix: Import: should not falsely detect Shop as available entity if there is column [Variant Metafield], but no [Metafield] columns.
• Import Customers: identify Customer also by Phone, if Email value is not provided in the import file.

2024-05-08

• Import Metafields: Properly parse decimal numbers that are written in a scientific format like 5.1e-05.
  That concerns only the decimal numbers, and not integers – because large integers in Excel, if converted to scientific form, lose precision. So those need to be formatted as “Text” type in Excel before importing, to not lose the precision.
• Import Files: avoid creating duplicate files – when creating new, set the filename from [File Name] column; when updating – search also by the filename from the Link column.
• Rollback: Import Files: should not send the [File Name] to Shopify when creating new file, because Shopify requires all query parameters for the filename attribute. That seems like a bug, which we will investigate and consult with Shopify.

2024-05-07

• Import: allow to select another entity if selected entity has errors in sheet columns.

2024-05-06

• Fix: Import Images: it was not possible to download Dropbox images which previously worked, because Dropbox changed their User-Agent validation.

2024-05-01

• Fix: UI: was not able to show Job List if a job had > 5 notices about sheets without counts.

2024, April

2024-04-30

• Fix: Import Products: Rounding values for inventory columns instead of truncating them to integer, so that value of 5.99999999999 now becomes not 5, but 6.
• Import: Now you are able to select the entities for each sheet, or ignore those you don’t want to import.
  It will still assume the selected entity based on the sheet name, like before – if it is an exact match, but now you have more control over what sheet is what entity.
• Import: You are now able to import several sheets as the same Entity in one job, like Products.
• Fix: Import: for repeated jobs – should not auto-assume the sheet entity if matching a single entity by columns and it was not existing in the first job, but then was added in later jobs.
• Fix: Import: when analyzing all sheets – should not raise error if column exceeds max column length. E.g. when there are no column headings.

2024-04-26

• Import from WordPress: improve detecting and fixing the invalid escaped quotes in the exported file, like JavaScript inside the HTML.

2024-04-24

• Import Products: allow to use fully qualified Data URL in the [Image Attachment] column, not just plain Base64 text.
  Example: data:image/png;base64,PGJhc2U2NC1lbmNvZGVkPg==.
  Also, allow the image/svg+xml image type there

2024-04-15

• Import from BigCommerce CSV: use the [Product Name] column for Product Title, but [Page Title] if the Product Name is empty.
• Export & Import Companies: Added functionality for Metafields and Location Metafields columns.
• Export Customers: The Last Order should be not the most recent created, but the one with the latest Processed At date. Because you can create new Orders with historical Processed At date, which should not appear as the Last Order, because by that date – they are not.

2024-04-12

• Fix: Import Images: when downloading .webp images, sometimes they come as .gif – now sending the special header to servers to make sure they always stay as .webp images.

2024-04-11

• Fix: Import Companies: should show columns [Location: Shipping/Billing First/Last Name] not as [Export Only], but as recognized import columns.

2024-04-09

• Import: Products: Shopify has deprecated API attribute used to manage product variant “Track quantity” checkbox – column Variant Inventory Tracker. Fixed by using another API attribute dedicated to manage this variant field.

2024-04-06

• Import: Batch: Allow importing JSON file containing URLs to files without extensions, like URLs to Google Drive files.

2024-04-05

• Export Orders: added new filters [Fulfillment: Created At] and [Fulfillment: Updated At].

2024, March

2024-03-29

• Fix: Import Companies: setting more than 250 catalogs to a Company Location was failing with the “Error Input size greater than 250” in the Shopify API. We fixed that to set in batches by 250.

2024-03-25

• Fix: Import: When there is a repeated job from FTP/SFTP with moving files on the server according to job status, and you made a “Import Again” job from it, and changed to just “Delete the source file”, then we tried to delete the file from the originally moved file folder.

2024-03-15

• Import Orders: send Order Refund currency to Shopify when calculating and creating refunds, otherwise it might fail in some cases.

2024-03-13

• Import: Command REPLACE should not delete item that cannot be re-created (finalized validations for remaining sheets that didn’t have those validations till now – Metaobjects, Files, Discounts and Companies). So that you do not accidentally delete the items by using the REPLACE Command, if you don’t have the required columns to re-create those. Now we do such validations for all the import data sheets.

2024-03-06

• As we are seeing that the Products do not disappear anymore without the reason, we removed this additional check, to increase the product creation speed – back to what it was earlier.

2024-03-05

• Fix: All the stores that had file download issues because we changed file download key in the URL – can now download files from both URLs – the old and the new one. So you don’t need to change any URLs on your end anymore.
• Import from Magento: improved Variant Price calculation – giving priority for variant price value instead of calculating from configurable with adjustments.

2024-03-03

• Fix: Export Companies: Sometimes Shopify API returned error “Internal Server Error” when exporting Companies. This was caused by Main Contact: Customer Email column. If you receive “Internal Server Error” error message when exporting Companies try unselecting the Main Contact: Customer Email column from the export job.

2024-03-02

• Import Products: verify if the product is created, because Shopify API started to randomly lose newly created Products. This will slow down the creation of new Products a bit – until we will get to the bottom of this issue with Shopify, and will prove that Products are created reliably. It’s still faster than if you need to re-check which Products got created, and re-import those that were not.
• Import Products: match imported Media also by lowercase, because Shopify sometimes started to convert file name to lowercase.

2024, February

2024-02-29

• Export/Import Companies: Added new columns to Companies export and import:
  • Location: Billing First Name
  • Location: Billing Last Name
  • Location: Shipping First Name
  • Location: Shipping Last Name
• Import & Export Products: retry loading Variant Metafields when Shopify API fails with 404 (Variant Not Found) error, because sometimes (more often recently) Shopify thinks that the Variant does not exist when it was just now created.

2024-02-27

• Import Magento Products v1: take variant price from simple product if configurable product price is blank or zero and without price correction.
• Export: Remember only meaningful (Formatting and CSV) Options in the Latest job preset. So that if you for example had the previous job as a repeated job with custom file name, the next one most likely will not be such, so we reset those Options to default values, to avoid creating repeated jobs by accident.

2024-02-26

• Import Media: Allow uploading images without file extension.

2024-02-23

• Import: Media images: For image file URLs, the file extension does not need to exactly match the URL returned mime type, but allow any image mime type.

2024-02-22

• Migration: WooCommerce API: The app will now limit total number of Metafields and Metafields per item that can be migrated from WooCommerce. If any individual item or total number of Metafields reaches 15 000 Metafields, then the import job will fail. Such a large number of Metafields most likely anyway would not be needed in Shopify.
  If you are receiving such an error, you can add include_metafields=false in your WooCommerce credentials URL to not migrate custom fields/metafields from WooCommerce.

2024-02-20

• Export Metaobjects: Metaobjects entries with reference type fields are now, by default, exported as handles not Shopify internal GIDs.
  For example, Metaobject entry field that is product reference type will now export as products handle, such as, “my-summer-product”, instead of Shopify GID.
  (Ask our Support if you need to export Metaobject entry reference fields as Shopify GIDs, we can configure this individually for specific Shopify store).
• Import Metaobjects: Metaobject entry reference type field values now can be imported as handles instead of default Shopify internal GIDs.
  If the handle value is not found in the store then app will retry importing that Metaobject entry at the end of the import job. This resolves an issue with Metaobjects migration between Shopify stores as Shopify GIDs are different between different stores.
  When importing Metaobject entries with fields that are reference type (product reference, variant reference, etc.) – we check that this reference already exists in your store. If that does not exist, we assume that it will probably be imported later with the other sheets in the same file. So we automatically generate a new sheet Generated Metaobjects and add those Metaobject entries as rows to that new sheet. When all the other sheets are imported, then we again import the Generated Metaobjects sheet, with the assumption that now when all the data is imported, we will find those references for those particular Metaobject entries.

2024-02-13

• Fix: Export: Orders: Correctly calculate Line: Discount and Line: Total column values for shipping Discount rows.

2024-02-12

• Fix: Import: Large CSV files over 2GB containing multibyte characters caused the import job to freeze/crash in the app.

2024-02-01

• Fix: Import: improved URL parsing when the Image Src or any other URL has @@ in it.
• Import from WooCommerce: made it possible to migrate in cases when Woo API does not provide the header for items count.

2024, January

2024-01-31

• Import Products Media: improved ability to download images from servers that send a compressed response using the Content-encoding: deflate header from web servers that hosts those images. This allows you to import images from links that Shopify cannot download – in those cases.

2024-01-29

• Fix: Import Products Media: media import from FTP/SFTP did not work on repeated imports if the Product already has images.

2024-01-26

• Shopify API: updated API version to 2024-01.
• Orders & Draft Orders:
  • Removed [Customer: Accepts Marketing] column, because in the new Shopify API this attribute is not existing there anymore.
  • Added columns [Customer: Email Marketing Status] and [Customer: SMS Marketing Status].

2024-01-20

• Import Products Media: added feature to import Video and 3D Model files from Google Drive links.

2024-01-19

• Import: Command REPLACE deletes the original item from Shopify and re-creates it with the data only from the import file. We made a change that the item will fail before deleting the original item if the file does not have needed data to re-create it. For example, if you will have the Products import with REPLACE Command, but without the Title value – then we know that we will not be able to re-created it – we will just fail it before deleting that Product.

2024-01-18

• Fix: Import Products: when repeating importing the same images from Google Drive links, those images got duplicated.

2024-01-15

• Fix: Import Products: sometimes could not download image file from Google Drive because of Google API notFound error – retrying to download directly from web in those cases.

2024-01-11

• Import Files: should accept .mov files with MIME Type application/mp4 – because Shopify allows that.
• Import Products: when adding Media from Google Drive – set the real nice image filename that is for the Google Drive file, instead of file ID like was earlier. For files that were imported earlier with the file ID as the file name, we are able to detect that this is the same file, and not create duplicates.
• Fix: Retry zipping files if failing for any reason.
• Export Metaobjects: Added new filters to filter by Display Name and by Updated At.
• Companies Import: for Customer: Command new command DELETE – to remove Customer from Company.

2024-01-10

• Fix: UI: In New Export page – should not wrap Select Sheets dropdown content to newline.

2024-01-09

• Fix: Import Batch job: Should not show estimate warning about exceeding plan limit for Batch job, as we are summing the child job item counts.

Big Bang – 2023