Index content using the Coveo app for Shopify
Index content using the Coveo app for Shopify
The Coveo AI Search & Discovery app aims to automate as much of the onboarding process as possible, requiring minimal intervention on your part.
When you sync your Shopify product catalog with the Coveo Platform, all products and variants that meet the prerequisites are indexed in your Coveo organization. The app also creates or updates various resources in your organization whenever you launch a sync.
This article lists a few scenarios in which you must manually sync your Shopify product catalog with Coveo. It also describes the source update schedule if you enable automatic catalog sync.
Indexing prerequisites
The Coveo Platform only indexes Shopify products that meet the following prerequisites:
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Their Status is set to Active.
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They are published to the Online Store.
When to manually sync your catalog
You can enable automatic catalog sync in the Coveo AI Search & Discovery app. However, this only lets the app sync your Shopify product catalog with Coveo on a set schedule. It won’t reflect any configuration changes you make to your Shopify storefront.
You must manually launch a sync of your Shopify product catalog with Coveo in the following situations:
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When you first link your store to your Coveo organization
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When you add or delete a market
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When you add or delete a country within a market
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When you add or delete a language within a market
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When you change a market’s base currency
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When you change your multi-market domain setup
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When you add, change, or delete product or variant metafields, or update which ones to use as Coveo custom fields or facets
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When you change a store domain
To manually launch a sync of your Shopify product catalog with Coveo, click Launch sync on the app’s Catalog sync tab.
Source update schedule
By default, if you enable automatic catalog sync, the Coveo sources are updated according to the following schedule:
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