AirPower gives you the full ability to add, update, and remove images from your Shopify products and variants. You can also easily modify the order of your images and set alt tags.

Syncing images from Shopify

Syncing images from Shopify-to-Airtable can be useful to visually identify products and variants quickly. The quickest and simplest way to sync product images from Shopify to Airtable is to sync them into an Attachment-type column. In the Airtable table to which you are syncing product information simply create a new Attachment type column. Then, open a Shopify to Airtable sync configuration, go to Data Mapping, open the Products section and map the product images field to the column you just created. During a Shopify to Airtable sync AirPower will download all the images for each product, and add them as attachments to the relevant cell.

Adding images to Shopify

There are two ways to add images to a product/variant with AirPower.

Option 1. Use our Power Images feature

Power Images is a special feature of AirPower that makes it faster to add images to your products and variants. Power Images allows you to add images to your products/variants from a file or URL directly to our product/variant table rows. To do so, add the following columns:

• ∞ Add images from files - Upload files into this Attachment-type column and AirPower will take the files and add them to the product/variant
• ∞ Add images from URLs - This has to be a Text-type column. Here you can enter a list of comma-separated URLs. AirPower will download each image, and send it to Shopify alongside the product/variant.

When using the ∞ Add images from URLs Power Images column you can use straight image links, or links to publicly shared Dropbox files. In the Dropbox case AirPower detects that you are trying to add images from Dropbox and uses the Dropbox API to retrieve the images (something that the Shopify CSV importer just can't do).

Option 2. Manually add rows to an Images table

AirPower can sync images to/from Shopify via their own table in your base. In this table each row will be an individual image, and will need to have linked columns to your Products/Variants tables so that AirPower knows which image belongs to which Product/Variant.

To add images when images are synced to their own table go to your Images table and add a new row. Upload the image into the "File" attachment column, and link the image row with a product row (required) and a variant row (optional). You can also add an alt tag for each row image. If you are adding more than one image for a product then use the "Position" column to set the order of how you want the images to appear on your product page (1, 2, 3, etc.)

Updating images and their SEO data

To update the SEO data for images using Airtable you'll need to have synced your product images data onto their own table. In this table set up a column to contain the Alt Tag for your images. The Alt Tag is the SEO-friendly description of the image that Google sees. In your Shopify-to-Airtable sync profile, open Data Mapping, open the Images section, and map this new column to the alt shopify image field. Run the Shopify-to-Airtable sync to populate the table with existing images and their alt tags.

When you are done updating your images run an Airtable-to-Shopify sync, and the images will be updated in Shopify.

Removing images

To remove an image from a product/variant you'll need to have your images synced into their own table. Once your images data is fully synced into this table, as a result of a Shopify-to-Airtable sync, simply delete the row for the image and run an Airtable-to-Shopify sync.