Keeping your costs up to date with A2X can be time-consuming. Each time a cost is added, deleted or changed, it is best practice to update the changes in A2X to ensure the cost entry to your accounting system is as accurate as possible.
A great way to save time is to create a Google Sheet with the cost data and share this sheet with all people in your organization who are responsible for keeping cost of goods sold up to date.
Please follow these instructions step by step to link your sheet. Each step is important for the data to be processed correctly by A2X.
Step 1: Create a Google Sheet
Click HERE to navigate to Google Sheets, then click the 'Go to Sheets Button'.
Step 2: Set up your Google Sheet
Your Google sheet must have the following two columns only with 'sku' as the header in cell A1 and 'cost' as the header in cell B1.
Please note if the Google sheet is not set up correctly with only two columns named 'sku' and 'cost', our system will detect this and notify you with an error message to try again.
Step 3: Enter or update your cost information
If this is the first time you are preparing your cost sheet, you may wish to open or download your cost information from your inventory system. Depending on your internal workflows, this information may be taken from another spreadsheet, an inventory program, Shopify, Amazon or another system. This information must be copied and pasted into this Google Sheet. Please refer to the following screen shot for an example of how this data will be populated.
If you have already uploaded your Google Sheet URL in A2X previously, all you need to do is change the cost, or add additional rows for new SKUs.
Step 4: Create the shareable URL
When you have prepared the cost data for upload to A2X, you will need to create the URL to copy and paste to A2X. This step needs to be completed only once, and the URL will stay the same going forward.
Click on File in the menu bar | Share | Publish to Web
Step 5: Publish to Web
Select 'Entire Document' and drop down the box that displays Web Page and change to Comma-separated Values (.csv).
Please note these steps are very important, otherwise the auto import process will not work.
Click on Publish and then OK
Please note this URL is viewable and editable by any person that has the URL, so please consider your organization's security policies before proceeding.
Step 6: Copy the URL
Copy the URL shown in the grey highlighted box below to your clipboard (you can do this by right clicking and choosing Copy, or pressing < Ctrl C >
Step 7: Paste this URL in the highlighted box below
Select your Costs Currency then paste your URL.
Please note if the Google sheet is not set up correctly with only two columns named 'sku' and 'cost' or if the URL is not in .csv format, our system will detect this and notify you with an error message to try again.
Step 8: Click on the Enable Cost Import Button
Step 9: Check to see if your cost import was successful
Click on the Cost History tab. Please note it may take up to 24 hours for this row to appear as the costs will update at 1am UTC each day. If no row appears after 24 hours, please contact us so we can provide assistance.
