Both Altera and Matrixify are Shopify apps designed to import and export Shopify data using spreadsheets. With Altera, we believe that we can expand the capabilities of export/import tools my making them more user-friendly and with additional features.
Supported Data Types
Both Matrixy and Altera support exporting and importing the following data types:
Products
Orders
Customers
Blog Posts (articles)
Files
Smart Collections
Manual Collections
Pages
Activity
Metaobjects
Redirects
Menus
Shop Data
Discounts
Payouts
Companies
Draft Orders
Additionally, Altera supports the following data types:
Catalogs
Metafield Definitions
Metaobject Definitions
Supported Fields
In addition to the export/import fields that Matrixify supports, Altera supports the following fields:
Export, import and adjust customer's store credit balance
Payment Terms for Orders and Draft Orders
Exporting and importing unit prices for products
Additional Features
Run multiple jobs at once (without having to pay $200/month)
Automatically converting rich text metafields (
rich_text_field) to Shopify's JSON format on import. (Matrixify added this feature about two weeks after we announced it)Automatically detects CSV delimiter and chooses between comma, tab, semicolon, space, colon, and pipe delimiters
Data Transformations: Automatically restructure exported spreadsheets (rename, reorder, extract, combine columns, and more)
Sales channel publishing: Control product publication status across individual sales channels (Online Store, POS, Facebook, etc..)
Automatic discounts with customer targeting: Import and export automatic discounts with customer targeting (by email address or customer segment)
If you come across some action that you can do in Matrixify but not in Altera, please let us know. We are always looking for ways to improve Altera.
Planned Features
We're not done yet, here are some of the features we're working on:
Command line tool: A CLI tool for uploading and downloading files and creating exports
Scheduled exports: Run exports on a schedule and send results to a URL
Scheduled imports: Download files from a URL and import them into Shopify on a schedule
WooCommerce migration: Import data from WooCommerce to Shopify
If any of these features are important to you, or you have other suggestions, please let us know.