Channels & Stores

A channel in UnoPim is a sales surface — web, mobile, b2b, wholesale, and so on. Each channel has its own attributes, languages and currencies. This tab tells the connector how each UnoPim channel maps onto your WordPress install.

Where it lives

WordPress admin → UnoPim Configuration → Channels & Stores.

Available to administrators and shop managers.

At a glance

The page shows:

• A summary card: how many channels, how many WordPress sites mapped, total languages, total currencies
• A Refresh channels button
• One row per UnoPim channel, with all its settings inline

Submit button at the bottom: Save channels.

Refresh channels

Click Refresh channels to pull the latest channel definitions, languages and currencies from UnoPim.

The connector caches what it fetched, so if you edit a channel inside UnoPim, that change won't reach WooCommerce until you click Refresh.

Per-channel row

Each channel renders as a row with these controls:

Channel code (read-only)

The UnoPim channel name (e.g. default, web, mobile). You can't rename it from WooCommerce — change it in UnoPim and click Refresh channels.

Site (multisite only)

A dropdown of WordPress sites in your network. Pick which site this channel syncs to.

On a single-site install, this is hidden — there's only ever one target.

The mapping is consumed every time a pull or push needs to write into the right site. See Multisite.

Pull enabled

Toggle. When off, no UnoPim → WooCommerce sync runs for this channel.

Push enabled

Toggle. When off, no WooCommerce → UnoPim sync runs for this channel — even editing a product directly in WooCommerce won't push.

Sync interval

How often the connector should automatically pull updates from UnoPim:

Cooldown seconds

A whole number, 0–3600. Default 60.

The cooldown prevents ping-pong loops. After a successful pull writes into WooCommerce, that same product will normally fire a save event that would push back to UnoPim. The cooldown remembers the recent pull and skips the push for this many seconds. The same applies in reverse.

0 disables the cooldown (you'll get echo loops if both sides actively edit). 60–300 is typical.

Languages

Multi-select. Pick which languages this channel actively syncs.

For example: a web channel might sync en_US, fr_FR and de_DE, while a mobile channel only syncs en_US. The Attribute Mapping tab scopes to (channel, language), so unselected languages stay out of the picker.

Currencies

Multi-select. Pick which currencies this channel uses.

Per-currency prices flow into WooCommerce's pricing fields. If you use a multi-currency plugin, see Multilingual & multi-currency.

What happens when you save

1. The connector validates each field.
2. It works out which channels just changed their sync interval.
3. It re-registers the scheduled syncs accordingly.
4. The page reloads with a success notice.

Common configurations

Single store, single language

default channel
  Site:        (the only one)
  Pull:        on
  Push:        on
  Interval:    Hourly
  Cooldown:    60s
  Languages:   en_US
  Currencies:  USD

The bare minimum that works.

Multilingual single store with WPML

default channel
  Pull:        on
  Push:        on
  Interval:    Hourly
  Languages:   en_US, fr_FR, de_DE
  Currencies:  EUR, USD

The WPML bridge resolves translations to the right WordPress translation per language. See Multilingual.

Multi-store with WordPress multisite

web channel        →  Site 1 (mainstore.example.com), pull+push, every 15 min
b2b channel        →  Site 2 (wholesale.example.com), pull only, hourly
mobile channel     →  Site 1, pull only, every 5 min

UnoPim is the source for B2B (no push); the consumer-facing main store has full two-way sync.

Migration mode (one-time pull, then schedule)

all channels:
  Pull:        on
  Push:        off
  Interval:    Disabled  ← run manually from Sync tab

Click Pull Full once. Review the results. Then turn schedules back on.

Troubleshooting

Next: Field Mapping