eCommerce - Faster / Easier bulk attribute management

Currently you can import attributes for a product with CSV, but it’s a slow process. You need to know product IDs already to create the attributes. And you need to create the attributes first in order to have IDs to give to the options.

Option 1: Create an attribute template e.g. for “size” for a clothing website, which can be defined in eCommerce settings and then used to create new attributes for products, either for all products, or those products already assigned to a selected category. This UI should create attributes on the products which are functional. In this example you could create a template for Men’s top sizes and a template for Women’s top sizes and then create attributes for all products in that category.

Option 2: Improve CSV export / import for attributes so that it’s a one import process and attributes are automatically mapped to products (using external IDs) without needing to do it in phases to generate ids first.

These ideas probably need development to make sure it’s suitable for editing attributes as well as adding them, and keeping track of which attributes were created via template and updating them when the template needs to change.