ODBC guide

Create a product

Creates a new product in Shopify. You can specify various attributes such as Title, BodyHtml, Vendor, ProductType, Tags, and Images.

This example also demonstrates how to create variants and options simultaneously by supplying JSON arrays for the Variants and Options columns.

INSERT INTO Products 
(
	 Title
	,Status
	,BodyHtml
	,UrlHandle
	,Vendor
	,ProductType
	,Variants
	,Options
	,Tags
	,Metafields
	,Images	
	)
VALUES	
('Ice Cream'
,'draft'
,'<strong>Very yummy ice cream!</strong>'
,'ice-cream' 
,'Burton'
,'Snowboard' 

,'[
	{"price":10.5, "option1":"Chocolate","option2":"Small","sku":"ICE-CHO-SML","inventory_quantity":100},
	{"price":10.5, "option1":"Chocolate","option2":"Medium","sku":"ICE-CHO-MED","inventory_quantity":100},
	{"price":11.5, "option1":"Vanilla","option2":"Small","sku":"ICE-VNL-MED","inventory_quantity":210}
  ]'

--you must set variants and use atlease one value from the below list in option1, option2 or option3 in any variant entry else it will fail.  
,'[
	{"name":"Color","values":["Chocolate","Vanilla"]}, 
	{"name":"Size","values":["Small","Medium"]}
  ]' 

,'["Frozen","Seasonal","Dad''s Fav"]'

--adding metadata (custom fields) - metadata fields must be created before setting it 
--below are 2 system fields for SEO Title / SEO Description (you dont need to create them unlike custom metadata). These values appears on SEO section
,'[
	{"key":"title_tag","value":"Yum Ice Cream SEO Title", "namespace":"global","type":"single_line_text_field"}, 
	{"key":"description_tag","value":"Yum Ice Cream SEO description", "namespace":"global","type":"single_line_text_field"} 
  ]'

--first image becomes main image if you supply multiple images 
--upload multiple images from URL (set "src")
 , '[	
	{"src":"https://zappysys.com/images/tech/google-analytics-logo.png"},
	{"src":"https://zappysys.com/images/tech/web-api-logo.png"}
  ]'
--OR upload multiple local image files (set "attachment")
--, '[	
--	 {"attachment":"<<c:\temp\icecream_1.png,FUN_FILE_BASE64ENC>>"},
--	 {"attachment":"<<c:\temp\icecream_2.png,FUN_FILE_BASE64ENC>>"}
--  ]'  
  
)