CSM Sales Channels - Listing Management

Template Code

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

The CSM Listing Template to use when creating new Listings for this Sales Channel.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Product Information Purpose

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

This field is for future use. It will allow you to specify a purpose for product information you populate in CSM.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Auto Build Attributes From

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Indicates the method used to auto build attributes for a Sales Channel attribute set.

Manual: CSM will not build any attributes by default

Item Attributes: Channel Listing Attributes are populated from Business Central Item Attributes for the linked Business Central Item

External: CSM should defer to other extensions that will build the Attributes.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Enable New Attribute Design

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Enabling this field will instruct CSM to store Listing attribute information in separate tables. You should enable this field if you have not yet deployed CSM for your platform and are doing so for the first time.

If you have been working with CSM for your platform's Listing Management in the past, please contact us before enabling this field, as there may be data migration activities to consider. 

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Use Shared Item Attributes

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Enabling this field will instruct CSM to create common item attribute records that can be shared between Listings.

This is to accommodate varying attribute structures across different platforms. Your platform may have product-specific attributes, in which case, this field must be set to False. 

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Attribute Set Behavior

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Select the method by which you want CSM to manage attribute sets for the Channel:

One Per Category: a single attribute will be assigned per CSM Channel category.

Single: the Channel’s defined Listing default attribute set will be assigned to all Channel Listings.

Multiple Categories: a many to one relationship will exist between CSM Channel categories and CSM attribute sets.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart. 

Listing Default Attribute Set

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

If the Attribute Set Behavior is Single or Multiple Categories, enter the default attribute set for new Channel Listings.

Single: the Listing default will be assigned as the attribute set to all new Channel

Multiple categories: if a category without an associated attribute set is assigned to a Channel Listing, the Listing default will be assigned as the attribute set. 

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Price Group Code

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

This refers to the price group to use for pricing.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

CSM Price List Assignment Type

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Indicates the type of record that price lists are assigned to for this Channel. This is used to communicate price list assignments to the Channel.

Blank: if you are not working with CSM price lists, you can leave this setting blank

CSM Price Group: price lists will be assigned to specific CSM price groups.  This is useful if your price lists are defined for broad groups of Customers.

CSM Company: price lists will be assigned to specific CSM Companies.  This is useful in B2B scenarios where you define specific price lists on a company-by-company basis. 

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Update Product Categories

This applies to BigCommerce:

When enabled, CSM sends category assignments from CSM Listings to the platform. Enable this setting if you want to manage platform categories from within Business Central.

This feature is currently not available for Amazon, Walmart, Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento.

Listing Default Short Description

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

The short description is defined directly on the CSM Listing.

Manual: CSM will not use any Item information in Business Central as the basis for the description. You can manually enter this information on a CSM Listing.

Description 2: CSM will use an Item’s Description 2 value as the basis of the description.

Extended Text: CSM will use an Item’s extended text as the basis of the If you wish to use extended text, you must assign a description of Short Description.

LS Item HTML: if the LS Central extension from LS Retail is installed, CSM will use an Item’s LS Central item HTML value as the basis of the description.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Manual

Description 2

Extended Text

Listing Default Long Description

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

The long description is entered as a product information record for a CSM Listing.

Manual: CSM will not use any Item information in Business Central as the basis for the description. You can manually enter this information on a CSM Listing.

Description 2: CSM will use an Item’s Description 2 value as the basis of the description.

Extended Text: CSM will use an Item’s extended text as the basis of the If you wish to use extended text, you must assign a description of Long Description to your extended text records.

LS Item HTML: if the LS Central extension from LS Retail is installed, CSM will use an item’s LS Central item HTML value as the basis of the description.

Item Marketing Text: CSM will use an Item’s marketing text as the basis of the description.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Manual

Description 2

Extended Text

Item Marketing Text

Default SKU Method

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

The default method for generating the Sales Channel SKU when creating CSM Listings from an Item card. 

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Default Images

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce and Magento:

The default source of images to use when automatically building the Listing.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart and WooCommerce.

API Image File Path

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento:

A path to send to the platform when communicating Product Image File Names.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart or BigCommerce.

Base Image External ID

This applies to Amazon, Shopify and Magento:

The External Id to identify a base (or primary) product image.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart, BigCommerce or WooCommerce.

Small Image External ID

This applies to Amazon, Shopify and Magento:

The External Id to identify a small product image.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart, BigCommerce or WooCommerce.

Thumbnail Image External ID

This applies to Amazon, Shopify and Magento:

The External Id to identify a thumbnail product image.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart, BigCommerce or WooCommerce.

Default Product Status

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

The product status you want to assign by default to all CSM Listings that are created.

Active: the product is immediately available for purchase on your platform.

Draft: the product is in the process of being set up and is not available for purchase on your platform..

Pending: the product has been fully set up but requires a final review/sign-off before it will be made available for purchase on your platform.

Private: privately published products are not generally available for purchase on your platform but can only be accessed by specific visitors.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Inventory

Send Availability Information

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Indicates whether CSM should send inventory availability to your platform.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Channel Inv Location ID

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

The ID of the platform location that you are sending calculated inventory values to.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Default Availability Basis

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Inventory method used when calculating availability. You can override this setting at the Listing level.

Availability: formula expressed as:

"on hand" -  "due to ship on a Sales Order" + "what can be received on a Purchase Order with expected release date being today or before"

Available Inventory: formula expressed as:

"on hand" - "due to ship on a Sales Order"

Inventory – "on hand" inventory

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Default Availability Percent

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

Specify a percentage to alter the Default Availability Basis by before sending the value to your platform. You can override this setting at the Listing level.

Example:  if the Default Availability Basis is 100, and the Availability percent is 75%, a value of 75 will be sent to the platform.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Default Availability Threshold

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

A minimum inventory threshold that must exist before CSM will send a calculated value.

Example:  if the Default Availability Basis is 9, and the Default Availability Threshold is set to 10, a value of 0 will be sent to the platform.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Subtract Threshold from Avail 

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Magento:

This indicates whether the Default Available Theshold will be subtracted from the calculated availability before sending to your platform.

Example:  if the Default Availability Basis is 100 and the Default Available Percent is 75 and the Default Available Threshold is 10, a value of 65 will be sent to the platform.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart.

Inventory Ship Plan Number Series

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento:

The number series CSM should use when creating new shipping plans.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart. or BigCommerce.

Default Replenishment Location

This applies to Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento:

The default replenishment location for Inventory Management moves.

This feature is currently not available for Walmart. or BigCommerce.