Shopify Catalogue Agent

A folder of photos and a sheet. A store full of finished drafts.

Send your product photos and your price sheet. The agent turns them into complete Shopify products, with titles, descriptions, variants, images, collections and tags, and saves every one as a draft. Anything your sheet does not say is asked, never guessed, and nothing goes live until you approve it.

Everything in writing. A written reply within one business day.
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Emma W. — autumn batch
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One batch, start to published

From a shared folder to a published store in four steps.

Built through the official Shopify interface, one store at a time. A sample autumn batch for Emma W.’s clothing label.

STEP 01you

Connect

Inside your own Shopify admin you set up a custom app, holding only the permissions we name in writing. No password changes hands, and the access can be revoked in one click.

custom app · scoped
STEP 02you

Your rules in writing

A written questionnaire and your existing products set the naming, the tone, the collection logic and the facts that must be asked before they are written.

questionnaire.md
STEP 03agent

Built as drafts

The first batch is built from your sheet and photos and saved as drafts. Nothing is visible to a customer.

drafts · 0 live
STEP 04Emma W.

You approve, we publish

One round of revisions, then the batch goes live on your approval. From there the monthly sync keeps the store in step with the sheet.

published · by you
What each product gets

A finished product, not a row to fix.

No import file to shape into someone else’s format, no error list to clear row by row and no stock copy. The agent works to your naming and your collection logic, and asks about any field it cannot fill.

Titles and descriptions

In your tone, from the facts your sheet gives, in any language or a mix of two.

Variants

Size, colour and material, each variant carrying its own price and SKU from the sheet.

Photo on the right variant

Matched from your file names and folders. Your photos are organised, renamed, resized and matched; no new photography is needed.

Collections and tags

Built by your rules, such as season, fabric or style code, so the filters in your store work.

Search fields

A meta title, a meta description and a clean handle on every product.

Price and stock updates

When the sheet changes, the store follows on your schedule, and each change is logged against its product.

Flags

Repeated style codes, styles with no usable image and sizes with no price are listed for you, never filled in.

Next season

Each new batch goes through the same rules, so the latest product reads like the first.

Where it stops

Four things it never does on its own.

Every word on a product comes from your sheet or your photos. Where they are silent, the agent stops and asks.

01

Publishing

Everything stays a draft until you approve it, on the first batch and on every batch after it.

02

A fact not in your sheet or photos

A missing fabric, measurement, care note or price is marked “confirm” and asked. It is never invented.

03

Payments and returns

Orders are read for stock and reporting, never handled. Refunds, returns and payments stay in your admin and your seller panels, with your team.

04

Access

The narrowest permissions that do the job, through a custom app you created. One click in your admin revokes it.

Your files, kept in order

The sheets and folders around the store, tidied as the work goes.

The catalogue work leaves your files better organised than it found them, and every one of them comes back to you.

Sheet exports

Your store’s current import template, plus a master export that marks each product as built, flagged or live.

Image folders

Files renamed in the order style code, colour, rendition, served from stable links, and the tidied folder returned to you.

Inventory and orders read

Read from Shopify directly. For a sales channel with no interface, a seller-panel report dropped in a shared folder does the same job.

One daily sheet

Every day, stock, orders and returns land in a single sheet. Stock goes back to the store directly, or arrives as a sheet ready to upload.

From a folder and a sheet to a finished store

Your data in, drafts out, published on your word.

The agent writes only from what you send. Missing facts come back to you as questions, drafts wait for your approval, and the monthly sync keeps the store following the sheet.

Photos and a price sheet, what you send, go to the catalogue agent, which writes only from your data: titles and descriptions, variants, a photo on each variant, collections and tags. Confirm: missing facts are asked. Drafts, nothing live yet, wait for your approval and are then published. Along the bottom, the monthly sync: the sheet changes, the store follows.
Photo check, on request

Every photo read against its row.

An added check for batches where photos and sheet come from different hands.

01

What is compared

The colour in the photo against the colour code in the row, and the product type against its category.

02

What is caught

Photos that are blurred, duplicated, low in resolution or missing altogether.

03

A flag list, nothing more

The result arrives as a list of flags. The check never edits a product.

04

The sheet stands

Where a photo and the sheet disagree, the sheet is taken as right and the photo is flagged.

Every engagement

Four things you always get.

Here a product means a single style, every colour and size of it included, up to a variant count stated in the proposal, and a move from another store platform is scoped there too. Every action is logged per product: what was done, what changed and who approved it. We promise no sales or rankings, and your data stays yours, never reused for anyone else.

01

A written brief

What we agreed to build, in one document.

02

A fixed price

Set in the proposal, before work starts.

03

Staging + approval

You see it and approve it before it goes live.

04

Documentation

How it works and how to change it, handed over.

FAQ

Before you send the first folder.

Send any other question in writing; a written answer follows within one business day.

Does it need our Shopify password?

No. Following steps we send in writing, you set up a custom app inside your own admin and grant it the permissions we list. The access covers only what the work needs, and you can revoke it at any time.

Will it publish without asking?

No. Every product is created as a draft and goes live only on your approval. After the first batch, price and stock changes arrive through the monthly sync, and each change is logged against its product.

What if the sheet is missing a fabric or a size?

The field is marked “confirm” and you are asked. A fabric, a measurement, a care note or a price that is not in your sheet or photos is never invented. Once you answer, the product is finished in the naming and tone set by your questionnaire and your existing products.

We also sell on marketplaces. Same agent?

The catalogue is the same; the delivery differs. Each marketplace expects its own format, and the Marketplace Catalogue Agent writes it from the same master record, so both can run side by side.

Start

Not sure what you need? Ask in writing.

Send a few photos and your sheet. The reply carries sample drafts built from your own data and the date the batch could be in your store.