January 22, 2026
What’s changed?
We’ve updated our Shopify importer to Shopify Markets. From January 22 onward, Shopify markets will be Channable’s default importer for Shopify.
What’s Shopify markets?
Shopify markets is an upgraded version of Shopify that makes it easier to scale your business and sell to multiple markets from a single store.
Why did we switch to Shopify Markets?
Shopify markets is now Shopify’s default data model. To provide you with the best experience, we updated our Shopify importer to support their latest functionality.
Shopify Markets also offers significant benefits compared to the old importer, including:
- Drastically faster import times
- Multi-market data and translations
- Simpler setup (since essential data is included by default)
Old vs new importer differences
The old importer placed translated content into the default field (title, description). The new importer creates specific fields for localized data.
| Data Type | Old Shopify behavior | New Shopify markets field name(s) |
| Product Translation | Translated content was placed in the default field (e.g. title). | title_{language_code} (e.g., title_fr, description_es) |
| Market Price | Only one default price field (e.g. price) was available. | price_{market_name} (e.g., price_netherlands, price_belgium) and the corresponding currency field (price_{market_name}_currency). |
| Inventory Quantity | Total in inventory_quantity. Stock per location was optional. | inventory_quantity (total) and quantity_{location_name} for each location. |
| Product Category | Limited category data. | product_category (e.g., "Dog Food") and product_category_path (full path). |
Frequently asked questions
You can import the following market types into Channable:
- Company location
- Location
- No specific type
- Region
You can select the import type in your import settings.
Localized URLs are now imported by default for all languages selected in the importer if a localized URL exists in Shopify for that language.