Video Tutorials¶

Video walkthroughs of Emersoft Books. Each video links to the written guides that cover the same topics in full detail.

Catalog & Importing¶

Searching the catalog and importing books¶

Browse Ingram Content Group®'s catalog inside Shopify Admin — search by title, author, publisher, or ISBN, filter by BISAC subject, find forthcoming titles for pre-order — and import books as fully-populated Shopify products. Also covers how a hardcover and paperback of the same book merge under one product, with inventory, price, and metafields managed per variant. (7 min)

Chapters

0:05 — Browse the Ingram book catalog in Emersoft Books
0:20 — Search books by title, author, ISBN, publisher & BISAC
0:36 — Find forthcoming titles & accept pre-orders
1:17 — Filter books by BISAC categories
1:36 — Import books into your Shopify bookstore
2:20 — Book details, metadata & BISAC tags explained
2:52 — Import progress & multi-user collaboration
3:11 — Books automatically added to Shopify with full metadata
3:37 — Pricing, margins, inventory & Ingram CDF Lite
4:07 — Product metafields & variant metafields
4:37 — How book variants work (paperback vs hardcover)
5:48 — Import a second format of the same book
6:00 — Shopify automatically groups editions into variants
6:26 — Manage inventory, pricing & metafields for each variant

Related guides: Searching the Catalog · Import a Single Book · Pre-order titles

Bulk importing books¶

Import thousands of books from a CSV of ISBNs — create new products or enrich existing ones with Ingram metadata, choose which fields to update, and publish in bulk. Also covers book variants, pre-orders, tags and collections, pricing and cost updates, and applying inventory. (16 min)

Chapters

0:42 — Bulk Import overview
1:22 — Import modes explained
2:51 — Create vs update books
4:47 — Book variants (paperback & hardcover)
5:40 — Publish books to Shopify
7:14 — Update book metadata
9:06 — Bulk tags & collections
10:26 — Book categories & metadata
11:46 — Book pricing & cost updates
12:28 — Ingram inventory sync
13:15 — Import book pre-orders
15:55 — Bulk inventory import

Related guides: Bulk Import by ISBN · Enriching an existing catalog

Book metadata and metafields¶

How the product and variant metafields imported from Ingram are structured, where to find them in Shopify Admin, and how to use them — display book details on product pages, expose storefront filters with Shopify's free Search & Discovery app, and build Smart Collections from metafield conditions such as Pre-order or Authors. (9 min)

Chapters

0:00 — What are Shopify metafields for books?
0:50 — Product vs. variant metafields explained
1:47 — Where to find all metafields in Shopify Settings
3:12 — Documentation: the Product Tags & Metafields guide
4:24 — Displaying metafields on your product page
5:39 — Using metafields in Search & Discovery filters
7:02 — Creating Smart Collections with metafields
8:22 — Using text-based metafields & getting support

Related guides: Product Tags & Metafields · Book Details Widget