How are article numbers that are imported from Magento determined?

The Tweakwise app imports products from Magento using a feed. In Magento, multiple store views are often used to support webshops for different countries or languages. The export extension is designed to export all products separately for each store view. As a result, if a product is sold in two store views, it will appear twice in the feed. Each product must have a unique identifier in the Tweakwise app.

To ensure each product has a unique number in Tweakwise, the product number is constructed as follows:

The Magento productnumber: 66636
The Magento storeview id: 10001

This results in a combined Tweakwise item id: 1000166636

Note: EAN or SKU are often added in the feed to allow visitors to search for those numbers.

Which properties/attributes are exported with the Magento 2 Export extension?

Products > Attributes > Storefront properties.

The attribute will be added if one of the settings below is set to yes:

Use in search
Layered navigation: everything except for no is exported
Use in search layered
Use in product listing
Use for sorting in product listing
Use in advanced search

Which stock is uploaded when using configurable products in Magento?

When using configurable products, there are multiple simple products. Each simple product has its own stock. A configurable product does not have stock and is really a virtual product. It's not an actual product but an instance that can be shown in the product list. Customers will always have to select a simple product when purchasing.

Go to: Stores > Settings > Configuration > Catalog > Tweakwise.
In the Export section, look for Combined product stock calculation mode.

These options are available:

Sum: the sum of the stocks of all the simple products (almost always suitable)
Maximum: the simple product with the highest stock will be used
Minumum: the simple product with the lowest stock will be used

Does Tweakwise use the visibility I set in Magento?

In Magento 2, every product has a visibility setting that determines where it appears in the webshop: the catalog, search, both, or neither:

The four visibility options are:

Not visible individually: The product doesn’t appear in catalog or search → not sent to Tweakwise.
Catalog: The product shows up in the catalog (category pages), not in search → sent to Tweakwise.
Search: The product shows up in search results, not in the catalog → sent to Tweakwise.
Catalog, Search: The product shows in both catalog and search → sent to Tweakwise.

Grouped or configurable products:

Sometimes a Configurable Product (like a shirt with size options) has visibility 4 (Catalog, Search). Its linked Simple Products (individual size options) might have visibility 1 (Not visible individually).

This setup ensures the individual options don't appear separately in the shop, only through the parent product.

How Tweakwise uses visibility:

The export extension always includes the Magento visibility setting in the feed and also applies the correct visibility values to the API requests.

To make this work, make sure you configure the visibility attribute as request parameter.

Note: because this visibility filter is always applied, you’ll see it appear at the top of the Insights - Filtering Usage report.