After installing, you'll land on the Home page, where you can go through onboarding, watch a quick video guide, and check your image upload stats. You can also view the Change Log and vote on features you’d like our team to develop next. If you’re missing a specific feature not listed here, please contact us at help-center@amasty.com or via the Get Support page.
Before uploading, we suggest going to the Settings page to customize your preferences for image matching, order, and alt tags.
Settings
Set the Matching Criteria to assign images to products based on their names:
- SKU (parent & simple products): Name images with the SKU of the parent or simple product. And use it as the matching criterion to assign images to products.
- SKU (variants, parent & simple products): Name images with the SKU of the variant, parent, or simple product. And use it as the matching criterion to assign images to variants.
- Title (parent & simple products): Name images with the title of the parent or simple product. And use it as the matching criterion to assign images to products.
- Title (variants, parent & simple products): Name images with the title of the variant, parent, or simple product. And use it as the matching criterion to assign images to variants.
Note: Which matching criterion to choose if you want to upload images to variants
In Shopify, the parent product and its variants share the same title. Selecting the Title (variants, parent, & simple products) matching criterion will upload the same image to all variants. If you want to upload different images to each variant, use SKU (variants, parent, & simple products) as the matching criterion, and name each image file according to the variant’s SKU (ensuring each variant has a unique SKU).
Keep in mind that in Shopify, any image uploaded to a variant is automatically assigned to the parent product. This means that if you have multiple variants, the parent product may end up with duplicate images.
Example:
- Parent Product: ‘T-shirt’
- Variant Products: ‘Variant 1’, ‘Variant 2’
Matching Criteria Options:
- If Matching Type: SKU (parent & simple products)
The image is uploaded only to the parent product, with no images on the variants. - If Matching Type: SKU (variants, parent & simple products)
You can upload different images to each variant, as long as each variant has a unique SKU. In this case, ‘Variant 1’ will have its own image, ‘Variant 2’ will have a different image, and the parent product ‘T-shirt’ will display both images from ‘Variant 1’ and ‘Variant 2.’ - If Matching Type: Title (parent & simple products)
The image is uploaded only to the parent product, with no images on the variants. - If Matching Type: Title (variants, parent & simple products)
Since the parent product and all its variants share the same title, choosing this criterion will upload the same image to each variant. Here, ‘Variant 1’ will have one image, ‘Variant 2’ will have the same image, and the parent product ‘T-shirt’ will display two identical images, one from each variant, resulting in duplicate images on the parent product.
To prevent this duplication, enable the Avoid duplicates option, which stops duplicate images from appearing on the parent product.
Select Matching Type:
- Full Match: The image name must exactly match the product information. Full Match is case-sensitive.
- Partial Match: The app will match images to products based on a portion of the image name. If part of the image name matches a product’s SKU (or title), the image will be assigned to that product and any of its variations.
For example, if you have an image named "Toy50.jpg," it will be assigned to products with SKUs like "Toy50," "Toy501," or "Toy502."
Note: For a successful match using the partial match type, the image name only needs to include part of the product's SKU. There's no need to modify the product SKU to match with images.
Avoid Duplicates - Enable this option to prevent duplicate uploads when an image needs to be assigned to multiple products. When this setting is enabled, alt tags will not be added to any images.
Choose an Image numbering separator: hash (#), dash (-), or underscore (_), to set the order of your images.
If you're uploading multiple images for the same product, add a number after the separator in the image name. For example, for a product with the SKU 'sample-product' and a hash (#) separator, name the images like this:
sample-product.png
sample-product#2.png
sample-product#3.png
Note: avoid using a separator symbol in the SKU itself.
Add image alt tags - activate the automatic addition of alt tags for uploaded images. This can be useful for SEO purposes, and you have the option to:
- Disable alt tags addition.
- Use the product title as a base for the alt tag addition.
- Use the variant title as a base for the alt tag addition.
Click the Save button to apply your settings.
Upload Images
After setting your preferences, go to the Upload Images page to start uploading your images.
Decide whether to manually or automatically assign images to products:
- Manual assign: Manually assign uploaded images to products. Preferred method for adding the same image to multiple products regardless of image name.
- Automatic assign: Automatically assigns images to products based on the matching criteria set on the Settings page.
To upload files, simply drag and drop your images, or click the Select Files button to choose them from your computer, Google Drive or Dropbox.
Note:
If you're using Google Drive or Dropbox, simply sign in to your account and grant PicManager access, so the app can view and upload your files. Loading files from Dropbox may take some time. Please wait until the process is complete.
You have the option to compress all the images into a ZIP file and upload that ZIP file from your computer, Google Drive and Dropbox. The name of the ZIP file doesn't matter; only the image names inside are considered.
Note:
We support the following file formats: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .webp, with a limit of 1000 images per upload. The maximum file size allowed is 1 GB. It's recommended to avoid simultaneous downloads as it can affect download speed.
After you've added the necessary files, find and click the Start Uploading button.
Automatic assignment
After the upload is complete, if automatic assignment is selected, you'll be taken to a page with a grid displaying the matched products. Review the grid to ensure all images are correctly matched with their respective products:
At this point, you need to choose a strategy. Decide whether you want to add the new images to the existing ones or replace them.
Note: use the replacement strategy with caution, as it will replace the current product images.
You can remove an image from matching by clicking the "X" icon.
After making your choice, click Finish Upload.
If the upload is successful, you'll see a confirmation message along with the upload history. You'll also find any images that may need optimization due to their large size, which could slow down your page loading speed. To optimize them, click Go to Image Optimization and install our app to help compress your images.
On the Upload page, you'll find a history section with details about all your uploads, including their status, when they were created and finished, and a detailed log:
Manual assignment
If you chose manual assignment, after the upload completed, you’ll be directed to the matching menu.
Note:
Shopify allows to manually upload up to 250 images.
Here You have two options:
- All products assignment: Attach the image(s) to all/multiple products, excluding certain products/variants if necessary.
- Selected products assignment: Attach the image(s) to specific selected products or variants only.
After ensuring all images are correctly matched with their respective products, click Continue.
At this point, you’ll be taken to a Matching Results report with a grid showing matched products. Decide whether you want to add the new images to the existing ones or replace them. After making your choice, click Finish Upload.
Product Variants
Each product variant can only have one image assigned to it. Additional images will be saved under the parent product.
Add to an existing image gallery - If the product variant didn't have any images previously, one image will be added to it, and any additional images will be linked to the main product. If there was already an image, all files will be linked to the main product at once.
Replace image - only one image can be linked to each variant. If you replace an image for a variant, it will simply remove the previously uploaded one.