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Automated addition of images to products and variations

Associating the right photos to each product and then to each of their variations, for example according to their color is particularly time-consuming if you try to do it with PrestaShop's back office.
Then when you have to do it on hundreds or thousands of products and variations, it quickly becomes totally impossible.

Unless... you use the automatic image search and association tool included in Merlin Backoffice ® Flex


Four time-saving features



Automatic file search


To sum up, the PrestaShop Merlin Backoffice module is capable of searching through a folder and its subfolders, locally or on a server, to analyze the name of each file found and intelligently compare it with various parameters of your products and declinations and do the reconciliations all by itself.

Typically compare the name of each image found, with the identifier or name or reference of the products, or with the references or attributes (colors,..) of their variants.

For example, it will only be able to understand that the photos abc45_1.jpg and abc45_2.jpg are two images that must be added to the product whose reference is ref-abc45.

Or guess that the files contained in the abc45-orange subfolder must be specifically associated with the orange-colored variations of the same product.

Bulk image transfer in the background


With the association search completed in a matter of seconds, it will start uploading and creating thumbnails in the background, while you sip your coffee.

Parametric caption filling


A little bonus, it will also fill image captions (ALT tags) with whatever you want (product name and category, reference,...), including the specific attribute for associated declinations, such as their color.

An example of an automatically-filled caption: "Bouquet of flowers, ref abc45 - color: orange | Florivert" .

Protection against duplicate images


Thanks to its internal duplicate management system, if a photo has already been associated it will follow your instructions (ignore, update,...).

Step-by-step tutorial for associating images en masse to the right products and declinations (in French)



45min


To help you get to grips with this unique tool, we've put together a step-by-step, highly detailed video tutorial, follow the guide:

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 Increase the resolution to 720p if the video is too blurry, replay it in Auto if it freezes.

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