Matching and merging products
Three operations build and maintain the unified product view: suggested matches, manual merge, and detach. Suggested matches links the obvious twins in bulk, manual merge handles everything it won't touch, and detach splits one listing back out when a group is wrong.
All three are reached from Products → Unified view.
| Operation | Use it when | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Suggested matches | The same product is listed in several shops under the same SKU | Whole shop, in bulk |
| Merge duplicate products | The twins don't share a SKU, or the same item is duplicated inside one shop | One group at a time |
| Detach | One shop's listing was grouped with a product it isn't | One listing |
How to use suggested matches
Suggested matches finds listings in your other shops that carry the exact same SKU as a listing in a base shop you choose, and offers each set as a group to confirm. Nothing merges until you confirm it.
- Open Suggested matches and pick a base shop — the shop whose records the merged product keeps. The header names how many other shops it is comparing against.
- Work down the cards. Each shows the base listing, the listings that matched it, and the reason: Same SKU, Same product SKU or Same model SKU.
- Confirm merge on a group, or Skip this group to hide it from suggestions.
- Use Confirm n on this page to take the whole page at once.
- Use Link all n to run the entire queue as a background job.
The bulk run keeps working after you close the dialog, reports progress as Linking… x of y, and can be stopped part-way — anything already linked is kept. Undo this run reverses the whole job in one click afterwards.
Groups where one SKU matches more than one listing inside the same shop are deliberately held back: DataGlass can't tell which one is the twin, so those stay in the queue for you to decide.
How to merge duplicates by hand
Merge duplicate products is the two-column tool for everything suggested matches won't do on its own — near-miss SKUs, name-only matches, and duplicates inside a single shop.
- Browse or search the left column. Scope it to All products, Not linked yet or Already merged.
- Click the products that are the same item. They collect into Your group on the right.
- Pick the product to keep as the base. DataGlass pre-selects the strongest candidate — usually the one with the most platform listings attached — and you can click any other card to switch.
- Confirm. The dialog restates what will happen and names the Unified SKU the group will keep.
The likely duplicates strip above the picker surfaces groups DataGlass already suspects, each with a confidence percentage. Review one, skip it, or mark it Not duplicates to hide it. Auto match adds every suggested match for the current base into your group in one click.
What a merge actually moves
| The kept product | Stays active and absorbs the others' platform links, sales history and costs |
| The others | Archive into it — nothing is deleted |
| Platform links | Move to the kept product; the confirmation names how many |
Match signals are shown on each suggestion so you can judge it: Same SKU, Same model SKU, SKU similar · 88%, Model SKU similar, or Name match · 92%.
How to detach one shop's listing
Detach is the per-listing reverse: it splits a single platform binding out of a unified product without disturbing the rest of the group.
- In Unified view, expand the product to show its platform sub-rows.
- Hover the sub-row for the shop that doesn't belong and click the minus.
- Confirm. That shop's listing becomes its own standalone product; the other shops stay on the unified product.
You can link it back later from the merge tool. Detaching a listing that is already standalone does nothing and says so.