The complete guide to the Shopify native Loger app

Loger is a native Shopify app that sits between messy supplier data and your live store. You open it inside Shopify admin, turn files and folders into publish-ready products, migrate catalogs from other platforms, keep prices and inventory current from new spreadsheets, and publish on your terms—without rebuilding listings by hand in Shopify admin.

This guide is the long reference for merchants using Loger inside Shopify: what each area does, how the main workflows run, and what each plan unlocks. Limits and features reflect the current product configuration—always confirm your own subscription under Billing or Settings → Account.

What Loger is (and is not)

Loger is catalog infrastructure for Shopify, not a generic file uploader.

If your day looks like “supplier file → hours of copy-paste → hope nothing broke,” Loger is built for that loop.

How the app is organized

After install and onboarding, the App Bridge navigation looks like this:

Until onboarding is finished, navigation collapses to a single Loger entry that opens setup.

Install and onboarding

Install

Install Loger from the Shopify App Store (or your install link). The app runs embedded in Shopify admin and uses Shopify authentication for your store—no separate “connect Shopify” step like a standalone SaaS tab.

Onboarding

First open walks you through a short setup:

1. Profile — display name and company

2. Legal — acknowledge permissions, Terms, and Privacy

3. Six questions — why you installed Loger, where product data lives today, what a win looks like, how you like to go live, catalog scale, and how you found the app

4. Finish — unlocks the full nav and Home

Answers help tailor guidance; they do not replace your import settings.

Home

Home is your store-level overview:

• Products imported — total products brought in through Loger

• Time saved — rough estimate based on products imported

• Products updated — products changed via the Update flow

• Products published — products pushed to Shopify through Loger

• Import activity — chart for the last 7 or 30 days

• Latest products — recent rows with links back into import sessions

Use Home to see whether you’re importing, publishing, and updating—not as the place you start a new batch (that’s Imports → New import).

Imports: supplier data → Shopify products

Imports are the main path from raw supplier assets to listings in your store.

Imports hub

Imports lists every session with source, status, product count, created date, and publish report when available. You can filter by source and status, open a session to resume review, or start New import.

Choosing a source

New import offers:

Locked sources show Upgrade to unlock and send you to Billing.

Typical path for every source:

Source → Upload / connect → Analyze → Review → Publish

File import (CSV, Excel, PDF, Word)

1. Drop or browse a file (max 20 MB).

2. Loger detects headers and maps columns (SKU, title, price, variants, and so on), or reconstructs a messy sheet with AI when columns aren’t clean.

3. You can save mapping profiles under Settings → Import mapping for the next similar file.

4. A session opens for review.

Supported extensions include .csv, .tsv, .txt, .xlsx, .xls, .pdf, .doc, and .docx.

Image import

Upload one or more product screenshots or photos. Loger uses vision to propose products and variants, then opens the same review experience. Per-image size is capped (about 20 MB each); batch limits apply on the API side.

Local folder

Pick a folder on your machine. Loger scans spreadsheets and images together—useful when suppliers send “one ZIP of chaos.” Upload size and file count follow your plan (see Plans).

Dropbox

Connect Dropbox from the import flow, choose a folder, and run the same analyze → review path as local folders.

URL import

Paste public URLs (up to 50). Loger scans what it can fetch, builds a session, and sends you to review.

Optional product type

Some flows ask what kind of products you’re importing. That hint improves reconstruction for titles, variants, and attributes—especially on messy supplier sheets.

Review: fix once, then publish

Every import (and every migration) lands in the same review screen. This is where you stay in control.

What you’ll do here

• Answer clarification questions when AI needs a decision

• Scan the product table for readiness, vendors, and issue focus

• Use quick fixes (vendor, $0 prices, generate SKUs, and similar bulk cleanup)

• Open Variants when option structure needs a pass

• Auto Assign Collections (and pick collections) so products land in the right Shopify collections

• Optimize catalog / optimize selected products — AI titles, descriptions, tags, and SEO-oriented copy (Starter+; guided by Brand voice)

• Export reviewed data as CSV, Excel, or JSON if you need a copy outside Shopify

• Select ready rows and click Publish N Ready Products

Nothing hits your store until you publish.

Publish to Shopify

The publish modal lets you choose:

Schedule windows go out up to about a year, with 15-minute time steps. After publish, you can download a publish report from the Imports hub or Schedule views.

Update: refresh live products from a spreadsheet

When a supplier sends a new price list or stock file, you usually don’t want a full re-import. Use Update.

Flow

1. Drop a CSV or Excel file (max 20 MB, up to 5,000 rows).

2. Loger maps columns (heuristics or AI questions if headers are unclear).

3. Rows are matched to your Shopify catalog by SKU, barcode, or title (fuzzy matches need confirmation).

4. Preview shows before → after for each change.

5. Choose Changes to publish — e.g. inventory only, prices only, or everything.

6. Select product rows, then apply.

Fields you can push

• Price

• Compare-at price

• Inventory

• Title

• Description

• Vendor

• Product type

• Tags

Unchecked field types are skipped even on selected products, so a stock refresh won’t overwrite pricing you meant to keep. If inventory tracking is off on a variant, Loger can turn tracking on when you apply an inventory change.

When to use Update vs Import

Migrate: other platforms → Shopify

Migrate (Growth and Enterprise) pulls an existing catalog from another store into Loger, then uses the same review and publish path as imports.

Supported platforms

Flow

1. Migrate → Get started (or New)

2. Choose platform

3. Enter credentials (help modal explains where to find keys)

4. Pull catalog → session created

5. Review → optimize if needed → publish to Shopify

Migration is for moving onto Shopify, not for ongoing supplier file drops (use Imports and Update for that).

Schedule

Schedule shows upcoming and completed scheduled publishes: one-shot dates and drip campaigns started from the review publish modal. You can cancel pending work and download reports.

On Free and Starter, the page explains the upgrade; scheduling and drip live on Growth+.

Settings

Brand voice is worth setting once: every Optimize run on review uses it so titles and descriptions sound like your store, not generic AI filler.

Billing and plans

Billing runs through Shopify Billing (monthly or yearly) on the Billing page.

Rough Shopify-surface matrix (confirm in-app):

Free is for exploring the UI and light imports; publishing and the heavier workflows unlock on paid plans. Marketing bullets on Billing are tailored for the Shopify app (they omit web-only catalog workspace features).

Recommended workflows

1. First catalog from a supplier spreadsheet

1. Finish onboarding.

2. Imports → New import → Import from file.

3. Map columns (or answer AI mapping questions).

4. In review: fix SKUs/prices, assign collections, optionally Optimize catalog.

5. Publish as draft first if you want a safety pass in Shopify admin, or live if you’re ready.

2. Ongoing supplier price / stock file

1. Open Update.

2. Drop the new sheet.

3. Confirm matches (especially fuzzy title/SKU rows).

4. Under Changes to publish, leave only what should go live (e.g. inventory).

5. Update selected products.

3. Switching to Shopify from another platform

1. Upgrade to Growth+ if needed.

2. Migrate → choose platform → connect → pull.

3. Review and optimize.

4. Publish in batches or on a schedule so the storefront doesn’t dump everything at once.

4. Large mixed folder (images + sheets)

1. New import → Local folder (or Dropbox).

2. Let Loger pair images with spreadsheet rows.

3. Review variants and missing fields.

4. Optimize, then publish or drip over time.

Practical limits worth knowing

Hitting a plan cap usually surfaces as an upgrade prompt rather than a silent failure—check Billing if a source or publish action is blocked.

In-app help

The embedded shell includes Loger support chat for questions about imports, review, Update, Migrate, billing, and settings. Prefer asking in context of the page you’re on (e.g. paste the error from a failed publish).

Quick reference: which tool do I use?

Summary

The Shopify native Loger app is built around three jobs:

1. Import — turn supplier chaos into reviewed, publish-ready products

2. Migrate — bring an existing store catalog onto Shopify

3. Update — apply only the spreadsheet changes you choose to live products

Everything else—optimize, brand voice, collections, schedule, drip—exists to make those three jobs safer and faster. Start with one real supplier file on Imports, publish a small batch, then use Update the next time prices or inventory move. That’s the loop Loger is meant to replace in Shopify admin.