Catalog and import list

The Everspring Storefront is where you pick products; your Import List is what syncs to your webshop. This article explains the mental model — including why deleted products come back and which fields you must never edit.

Written By Bas den Hoed

Everspring has two related surfaces, and understanding the difference between them is the foundation for everything else:

  • The Everspring Storefront is our platform-wide product catalogue, where every product from every Everspring supplier lives. Think of it as the shelf you shop from. You browse, search, and filter here, but nothing in the Storefront automatically shows up in your webshop.

  • Your Import List is your personal selection — the products you've picked from the Storefront to sell in your own webshop. Only products in your Import List sync to your connected webshop (Shopify, WooCommerce, or via API).

💡 A note on naming. "Catalog" and "Import List" both appear in the platform and mean the same thing: your selection of products that syncs to your webshop. We're standardising on Import List as the canonical term — "Catalog" is being phased out.

How to add products to your Import List

All product selection happens on the Everspring Storefront. There's no CSV upload, no spreadsheet import, and no separate "import everything" button — the Storefront is the entry point, always.

From there you have two ways in:

One product at a time

Open a product page and click Add to import list. The product is added to your selection and, on the next sync, appears in your webshop.

In bulk

This is the answer to one of the most common questions we get: "How do I import everything at once?" On a Storefront listing page — all products, a filtered view, or a single supplier's catalogue — select the products you want, then click the star icon to mark them all as imported in one action. Use this when you're onboarding a new supplier or pulling in a whole category at once.

What "imported" actually does

An Import List entry is a commitment to sync that product to your webshop. What happens next depends on whether this is the first time the product lands in your store or not.

First-time import — full create

The very first time Everspring adds a product to your webshop, we fill in every field from the supplier's data: title, description, images, price, stock, variants, SEO fields, and the anchor fields that identify the product (Vendor, SKU, EVR- tags, everspring metafields). You get a complete, ready-to-sell product.

Ongoing syncs — partial update

After that first import, subsequent syncs only overwrite a subset of fields — the ones that typically change on the supplier side, like stock and price, plus the anchor fields. Fields you customise on your side — your own product title, your rewritten description, your SEO text — are not overwritten. Edit them freely; they survive every sync.

That distinction is the whole model: create fills everything, update touches only what it needs to. The assumption is that you will polish copy for your own audience, and we won't stomp your work on every sync.

Why products come back after you delete them in your webshop

If you delete a product directly in Shopify or WooCommerce without first removing it from your Import List, it will reappear on the next sync.

Your Import List is the source of truth. Your webshop mirrors it. The fix is always the same: remove the product from your Import List first, and the webshop will follow on the next sync.

Can I turn off automatic sync?

No. Sync is how the product is designed to work, and there is no global switch that keeps a product in your Import List while hiding it from your webshop.

If you need to stop syncing, you have two options:

On Shopify there is no per-product opt-out. If you don't want a product in your Shopify store, remove it from your Import List.

Never edit Vendor, SKU, or the anchor fields

Everspring uses Vendor + SKU as the unique identifier for every product. That pair is how we match an Import List entry to the product in your webshop.

Change Vendor or SKU on the webshop side and the match breaks. On the next sync Everspring no longer recognises the product and creates a new one — leaving you with a duplicate.

The same rule applies to a small set of other anchor fields:

  • Shopify — the everspring namespace metafields and any tag starting with EVR-. These aren't for display; they're how we find the product. Don't rename, delete, or edit them.

  • WooCommerce — the "Everspring Imported" flag and its related meta fields.

They're safe to read. Never edit them.

Full per-platform lists:

Starting fresh: cleaning out your webshop

If you want to wipe your webshop and rebuild:

  1. Clear your Import List in Everspring first.

  2. Wait for the next sync — your webshop clears out to match.

  3. Rebuild your Import List from the Storefront.

Don't start by deleting products in the webshop. They'll come back.

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