Connecting to Wix

When you open CleverCat for the first time, you’ll see a screen similar to the one below. The names of your Wix Collections will have already been imported, but not your data. Before you can print, you'll need to upload your Product Data.

To begin, click Connect to Wix on the Navigation Bar.

Import Product Data

The time required to upload your Wix data depends on not only the number of products, but whether you use variants.

Wix permits only 200 requests per minute. If you don’t use variants, your data will upload very quickly—probably in less than a minute. But each group of variants requires a separate request. If you have a thousand products, and each has a variant, expect the upload to take at least five minutes.

There’s also a second button just for Inventory Counts. Again, with variants, the process can be slow.

You can re-import Product Data as required; the old data will be deleted so that the new data will be current with your Wix Store.

Categories and Subcategories

Wix uses the term “Collections”. CleverCat uses “Categories”. The two are basically the same except that CleverCat can create Subcategories if your product belongs to more than one Collection.

Consider this Wix Product, which belongs to both the Books and Science Fiction Collections.

You have the option to create and assign Subcategories--which would result in just one category: Books, or create as many Categories as there are Collections--which would result in two categories: Books, and Science Fiction.

You can also upload products which do not appear on your website because they are marked Hidden. Later, we’ll explore using hidden products to create other, non-product pages.

In this example, the Wix data contains all the Collections shown in the image at the top of this page, but importing using the Subcategory option reduces the Category List to just the primary ones: Baseball Gloves, Books, and Miscellaneous (products not assigned to a Collection are not uploaded).

The category: Front Cover, is built-in, as are other categories such as Table of Contents and Index Page.

The first Collection you assign an item to becomes the Primary. CleverCat can only create a single Subcategory for each product, and that will be the second assignment.

For example, if a book is first assigned to the Books Collection, then Western, and finally the Romance Collection, CleverCat will assign it to the Books Category, with a Subcategory of Western. Romance will be ignored. Optionally, CleverCat will upload duplicates of the product into every corresponding Category.