Manage syncable product properties

Overview

Synkro lets you decide exactly which product and variant properties it keeps in sync between your connected stores. These choices live in two places within your Synkro settings, under the Syncing options section:

• Global sync settings — your account-wide defaults, applied to every store connected under your Synkro account.
• Store-level sync settings — per-store overrides that let you disable syncing for specific properties in a single store, without changing your account-wide defaults.

Together, these settings give you fine-grained control over what Synkro treats as a “syncable” change.

How sync settings relate to product cloning

It’s important to understand the difference between the initial clone of a product and ongoing syncing of that product’s properties.

When Synkro clones a product using the Product Cloning tool, all of the product’s data is copied to the destination store as part of that initial clone — regardless of your sync settings. Your sync settings do not limit what gets included when a product is first created.

After the initial clone, your Global sync settings (and any Store-level sync settings) determine whether a future change to a property should sync. For example, if you disable Price syncing, future price changes in one store will no longer propagate to other products in connected stores — but a freshly cloned product will still arrive with the price intact.

In short: cloning includes everything once; sync settings govern what happens to changes from that point forward.

Global sync settings

Your Global sync settings are the account-wide defaults for which fields Synkro will sync between stores. If you don’t want a particular field to sync, you can disable it here and the change applies to every store connected under your Synkro account.

Accessing your Global sync settings

From your Synkro settings, open the Syncing options section in the left sidebar and click Global sync settings.

There are two groups of settings on this page: Variant property sync settings and Product property sync settings.

Variant property sync settings

These settings control which product variant properties Synkro syncs within and between your stores for variants that share the same SKU (or Barcode, depending on your syncing identifier).

Variant property	What it controls
Inventory Level	The available stock quantity for the variant
Price	The variant’s selling price
Compare at price	The “compare at” (original) price shown alongside the selling price
Cost per item	The cost (COGS) recorded for the variant
HS (Harmonized System) code	The customs / harmonized system code used for international shipping
Country/Region and Province of origin	The declared country and province of origin used for customs
Track inventory	Whether Shopify tracks the quantity for the variant
Inventory policy	Whether the variant can continue selling when out of stock
Requires shipping	Whether the variant is a physical, shippable product
Weight	The variant’s weight
Weight unit (lb, oz, kg, g)	The unit used for the variant’s weight
Taxable	Whether tax is charged on the variant
Position	The variant’s position (order) within the product
Options	The variant’s option values (e.g. Size, Color)
SKU	The variant’s SKU value
Barcode	The variant’s barcode (UPC, ISBN, etc.)

Product property sync settings

These settings control which product-level properties Synkro syncs between your stores. Synkro only syncs product property changes from parent to child, where the child product was created by Synkro via the Product Cloning tool.

Product property	What it controls
Title	The product title
Description	The product description (body content)
Vendor	The product vendor
Tags	The product’s tags
Custom type	The product’s (custom) product type
Images	The product’s images
Videos (Vimeo or YouTube hosted)	Embedded Vimeo or YouTube product videos
Theme template	The theme template assigned to the product
Status	The product’s status (active, draft, or archived)
Published on Online Store	Whether the product is published to the Online Store sales channel
Variants	Additions and changes to the product’s variants
Variant deletion	Whether variant deletions are propagated
Metafields	The product’s metafields
Publications	Which sales channels / publications the product is published to
Category (Taxonomy)	The product’s standard Shopify product category (taxonomy)

Saving your changes

By default, every property is enabled (checked). To stop a property from syncing account-wide, uncheck it and click Save at the bottom of the page. Your new defaults apply to changes that occur after you save.

Store-level sync settings

Sometimes a single store needs to behave differently from the rest of your account. Store-level sync settings let you override your Global sync settings for one store by disabling syncing for specific product or variant properties — without affecting your other connected stores.

What store-level overrides do

When you disable a property for a store at this level, Synkro stops syncing that property for that store only. Specifically, it stops Synkro from:

• Updating the selected properties in this store for changes that originated in other connected stores (blocks incoming changes).
• Syncing changes to the selected properties that originated in this store out to your other connected stores (blocks outgoing changes).

In other words, a store-level override is a per-store “deny list” that blocks both directions of sync for the properties you select. It layers on top of your Global sync settings — anything you disable here is disabled for this store regardless of your account-wide defaults.

Accessing your Store-level sync settings

Store-level settings are configured from within the specific store you want to customize. Open that store’s Synkro settings, go to the Syncing options section, and click Store-level sync settings.

You’ll see a list where you can select one or more product/variant properties to disable for that store. For example, selecting Price stops that store from sending or receiving price changes, even though Price remains enabled in your Global sync settings for every other store. Select the properties you want to disable and click Save.

Example use cases

• Region-specific pricing — A store sells in a different currency or pricing tier. Disable Price and Compare at price at the store level so its prices stay independent while inventory and other properties continue to sync.
• A store with its own product descriptions — A storefront uses localized or differently-worded copy. Disable Title and Description for that store so its copy isn’t overwritten by changes elsewhere.
• A store that manages its own tags — Disable Tags for a store that uses its own tagging scheme for merchandising or automation.

Metafield syncing blacklist and whitelist

The Metafields product property controls whether Synkro syncs a product’s metafields at all. If you need finer control — syncing some metafields but not others — each store also has a Metafield syncing blacklist and a Metafield syncing whitelist.

Both settings apply to the store you’re configuring, and they work in both directions of product syncing:

• As a child store — they control which metafields Synkro is allowed to overwrite in this store when a metafield is updated on a parent product in another store (blocks incoming changes).
• As a parent store — they control which metafield changes on this store’s parent products Synkro will sync out to child products in other stores (blocks outgoing changes).

For example, if a metafield is blacklisted in the parent store, changes to that metafield on the parent product won’t sync to the child products in any child store.

Pattern format

Both settings accept a comma-separated list of metafield patterns:

Pattern	Matches
namespace.*	Every metafield in the given namespace
namespace.key	One specific metafield

For example: custom.*, reviews.rating, seo.hidden

Metafield syncing blacklist

Enter the metafield namespace and key combinations that should not be synced by Synkro for this store. Any metafield matching a blacklist pattern is:

• Left untouched in this store when it changes on a parent product in another store.
• Not synced to child products in other stores when it changes on a parent product in this store.

All other metafields continue to sync as usual.

Use the blacklist when you want most metafields to sync and only need to exclude a few.

Metafield syncing whitelist

Enter the metafield namespace and key combinations that should be synced by Synkro for this store. Only metafields matching a whitelist pattern are synced — all other metafields are ignored by Synkro, both when they’re updated on a parent product in another store and when they’re updated on this store’s own parent products.

Use the whitelist when you only want a small, specific set of metafields to sync into or out of this store.

Example use cases

• Store-specific SEO or merchandising metafields — A child store maintains its own values in the seo namespace. Add seo.* to that store’s blacklist so those values are never overwritten by the parent product.
• Only sync product specifications — A child store should only receive spec data from the parent. Add specs.* to that store’s whitelist so every other metafield is ignored.
• Keep internal metafields in the parent store — A parent store uses an internal namespace for its own operational data. Add internal.* to the parent store’s blacklist so changes to those metafields never sync to child products in other stores.

Related documentation

• Cross Store Inventory Syncing — connect your stores and locations for inventory syncing
• Product Cloning — copy products between your connected stores