Parent rules and child products

A rule is one parent product plus the child products that follow it. Everything else in the app hangs off that.

Creating a rule

From the dashboard, Add Parent Product opens a dialog with a Search products… button, which is Shopify’s own product picker. Pick the listing whose details the others should copy, then click Add Parent. The app creates the rule and opens its page.

A rule can also start from a product page in your admin, through the Product Sync Rule item in the More actions menu, or from an accepted group on the recommendations page.

The rule page is titled with the parent’s name and shows the parent’s numeric Shopify ID beneath it. Edit Parent opens the product in your admin in a new tab.

Attaching children

Add Child Products on the rule page opens the same picker in multi select mode. Tick every product that should mirror this parent and confirm. The dialog lists what you picked, with Edit selection to change the set and Remove to drop one, before you click Add Child (or Add 3 Children, and so on).

Children appear in the Child Products card. Clicking a child opens it in your admin. Remove takes it out of the rule.

There is no limit on how many children a rule can have. The number of rules you can create depends on your plan; see limits and errors.

What the app refuses to do

Three relationships are blocked, and the app explains why and points at the rule that already owns the product:

• A product cannot be a child of itself.
• A product cannot be a child of two different parents.
• A product cannot be a parent in one rule and a child in another.

The effect is that there are no chains and no loops: data moves one step, from a parent to its children, and nowhere else.

Removing a rule

Remove next to a parent on the dashboard deletes the rule, its child links and its sync history. Nothing is written to your products when you do this. Values already mirrored onto the children stay exactly as they are, and you are free to edit them afterwards.