Copy Products Between Storefronts

0:01 Copy products lets you duplicate one or more products from a source storefront into another storefront in just a few clicks.
0:10 Additionally, as we always could do, we can also duplicate products into the same storefront that you currently working on. Now this updated version of copy products was introduced in the middle of August 2025, And it's designed to speed up new storefront launches and reduce repetitive setup work this
0:32 capability is enabled by default for all administrative users So what's happening behind the scenes is that the copy runs as a cute task when it's completed the duplicated products appear on the chosen recipient storefront as brand new items they are completely separate from the original storefront Now
0:54 there's quite a few different use cases for this. As I've mentioned, it allows you to launch your storefronts much, much faster.
1:00 It will allow you to create fast variant families on if you're copying on the same storefront while you can also create a multi brand catalog if you're copying between storefronts.
1:12 So you can copy and duplicate a product and just make minor tweaks on a different storefront to update the branding, for example.
1:19 Another option is you could first do pilot products on a staging or test storefront. And then once you're happy with those, you can then scale them to your production So let's take a look at a quick step-by-step implementation guide.
1:35 This is really easy to do. So we start off in our product And what we want to do is to select one or more products that we want to copy either onto this storefront or to a different storefront.
1:51 So I'm just going to select a couple of my products. I'm then going to go to the top right of my screen underneath the action list and I'm going to say copy, products selected.
2:08 So that will just copy these selected products from the list. This will bring up this new interface which allows you to copy between storefronts.
2:22 So the first thing you have to note here, let's go down to settings, is that we've got a product name and So if you just selected a single product, the field becomes the new product name.
2:36 So you can just put whatever you like in there, but will be the entire product name. If you have multiple products selected, then this field is used as a prefix, which is applied to each copied product name.
2:48 So for example, if I go copied, product, test, that will now be added as a prefix to each of those products that is copied onto our new storefront.
3:06 And then selecting the target storefront I want to copy them to, as you can see, one of those options is the current storefront that we have available, so we can keep them within in the same storefront.
3:20 We then have two more options. One is to specify whether these are published by default. My recommendation would be to turn them off, so because we, we should probably do four round of checks to make sure that everything's copied over correctly.
3:35 And then we can copy over the product images as well if you wish to do so. Now as an important little note here, And what this clarifies and identifies is that a lot of the dependencies and resources that are associated with that product will also be copied over to the recipient's storefront if they 
4:00 don't already exist in that storefront. So this includes things like attributes, it includes things like categories that have been created, products that have associated with it, that kind of thing.
4:11 and you must note as well that if that target or recipient storefront has a different configuration, you will need to very carefully check that the copy products have been adjusted accordingly to match that different configuration.
4:30 So I'm just going to go ahead and click We'll give us a running update as to how that is doing but that will also work in the background so we can continue to work.
4:42 So only two products and they're quite simple products here. Now it's worth bearing in mind that in order to be able to do this because we are working between storefronts, you will need to be logged in as a platform administrator.
4:57 Storefronts administrator will not have the ability to access multiple storefronts on your platform. If you are logged in as the platform administrator, when you get into, oh, it will up to this point, you have the ability to switch between storefronts.
5:11 So I'm going to select the recipient storefront, go to my product list, and then search for those particular products. Now we can see the two products have been copied.
5:37 We have our prefix on the names. We can see that our images have been brought over as well. What I'm going to do is just go on edit and just see what kind of information has been brought over.
5:48 So we can see all of the product landing page information has been brought over. This is a multi-part product so I'll just have a little look at the configuration.
6:00 I can see I can see a well that are so as well and I can see as well that associated resources have been copied over as well.
6:09 So for example if I go to the category mappings we can see that category mapping still exists as it did in the original storefront.
6:20 And that's due to the fact that the actual category structure that was required by that Now, as of the first release of this functionality, which is in the middle of August 2025, there are a couple of limitations which need to be aware of, and you need to know when you have to double check what has been
6:44 copied. So most of the product data and related assets, as we've seen, they copy over and are created as brand new records in the recipient storefront.
6:54 However, there are some important limitations. So for example, at the moment pricing scripts and global additional data CSVs, there are limitations with these two elements.
7:05 So you must root carefully review pricing behavior after the copy is completed and reconfigure the storefront where necessary or reconfigure that particular product where necessary.
7:16 Another limitation is 3D products so these may require additional configuration on the recipient storefront after copying and then we also have mega edit products with preview plugins so products that rely on preview plugins can require extra post copy setup.
7:35 Apart from that everything should copy over absolutely fine, however it is still recommended to do careful checks to make Now a few final tips and best practices for this functionality.
7:51 So first of all, batch thoughtfully. So you can copy these in logical sets. So for example by category or by product type, and then validate after each batch.
8:02 So you don't get confused too many products once on the recipient's storefront. That being said, you can copy them all over in large batches if you prefer to do so.
8:14 It's also recommended to name them strategically. So use meaningful prefixes when copying multiple products. So, for example, campaign language or client code, if applicable.
8:27 It's important that if you do notice any exceptions in your particular workflow or your particular copied products, then it is recommended to keep a short internal checklist, so future copies are faster and more reliable.
8:42 And then, finally, I would say that you want to publish intentionally. So whenever you do create one of these copies, I recommend that you start off with an unpublished draft so you don't just copy it as published straight away.
8:55 Make sure you validate it first and then publish it you know it's been finalized.