Extra catalog attributes: reapply without reimporting

Where to find it

In your account menu, under Catalog and exports, Import tab, on the Column Mapping card, Extra attributes block. The Edit button sits next to the block's title.

The card only has content after the store's first catalog import.

What extra attributes are

Extra attributes are the spreadsheet columns that are not code, description, price, stock, unit or packaging, but that you want to keep on each product: brand, application, material, color, voltage, NCM. They appear on the Attributes card of the product page, help search find the product and can serve as a filter in product lists.

Each attribute has three things:

• the Attribute key: the name under which the attribute is stored (e.g.: marca, aplicacao);
• the spreadsheet Column the value comes from;
• the Type: Text or Numeric.

In read mode the block lists each key with its column next to it; with none, it says No extra attribute set up.

When to reapply instead of reimporting

Use Edit when the import has already been done and you noticed that a column was left out, came in with the wrong name or with the wrong type. Reapplying reads again a spreadsheet that has already been imported and rewrites only the attributes of the products: it does not touch price, stock or description, nor create or deactivate any product.

It is safer than reimporting the entire catalog to fix one attribute.

Step by step to reapply the extra attributes

1. In Extra attributes, click Edit.
2. If the store has more than one stored spreadsheet, choose in Source file which import to read the columns from.
3. The list shows the current attributes turned on and the other spreadsheet columns turned off. For each row:

• turn the Active switch on or off;
• adjust the Attribute key, if you want a different name;
• choose the Type: Text or Numeric.

1. Click Save and Reapply. A bar shows the stages (Reading file..., Processing..., Saving..., Indexing...).
2. To give up without changing anything, click Cancel.

Columns that are already price, stock by location, price table, tax or cross-reference do not appear in the list: they already have their own place.

⚠️ Save and Reapply replaces the attributes entirely

Reapplying does not add up: for each product found in the chosen spreadsheet, the attributes become exactly the ones turned on in the list. An attribute you turn off (including one that already existed, such as the brand) disappears from the products that are in that spreadsheet.

Before saving, check that every attribute you want to keep has Active turned on.

What is not affected:

• products that are not in the chosen spreadsheet keep the attributes they have;
• deactivated products are not touched;
• in a store whose catalog is synced with the ERP, the attributes the ERP defines (brand, line, NCM and others) are preserved.

Where the reapply spreadsheet comes from

Reapplying only reads full import spreadsheets (Import new catalog) stored by Vendria. The three most recent ones of each store are stored; older ones and those from Update existing catalog do not appear in Source file.

With no stored spreadsheet, reapplying warns that it found no import file: import the catalog first.

When it goes wrong

"Duplicate keys": two active rows with the same Attribute key. Rename one of them.

"All active attributes need a key": an active row was left with a blank key.

"No extra columns available. Import a catalog to see the columns.": there is no stored spreadsheet to read, or all the columns are already somewhere else.

"I reapplied and the brand disappeared from some products." The brand key was turned off in the list. Edit again, turn the key on and save.