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Guides, one feature at a time
How each part of Datima Batch Expiry Dates works and how to set it up — in the app's own words, with the screens you will see. Start with the five-minute guide, then read the one you need.
Start here · 5 min
Getting started with Datima
Record one expiry date and every sale deducts from the right batch: the five-minute path from the first screen to a dashboard with your own numbers.
Read →Guide · 5 min
Batches: record an expiry date, a quantity and where it sits
How to add, edit, zero and delete a batch in Datima for Shopify: the two required fields, lot codes, bins and received dates, and what each one drives.
Read →Guide · 6 min
CSV import and export: your whole catalog in one spreadsheet
The import template pre-filled with your Shopify products, the two columns to fill, the review step, failed rows, stopping and resuming, and the export.
Read →Guide · 3 min
Bulk edit: one date for many products
Select products in Datima and add a batch to all of them, set one expiry date, shift dates by days or export the selection — all-or-nothing, up to 500 products.
Read →Guide · 5 min
What happens on a sale: first expired, first out
How Datima deducts each fulfilment from the batch that expires first, puts refunds back, shows unmatched sales, keeps a shipment history and lets you correct a pick.
Read →Guide · 4 min
The dashboard: what expires, when, and what it is worth
The five cards, why the windows are cumulative, how value is computed and what is excluded, the warnings, the filters and sorts, and the getting-started checklist.
Read →Guide · 3 min
The weekly expiry digest
What the weekly digest email from Datima contains, when it is sent, how to change the day and time or stop it, and which language it is written in.
Read →Guide · 4 min
Show the best-before date on your product page
Add the Best before theme block in Shopify's theme editor, its settings, how it follows the selected variant, the markdown line, and the metafield it reads.
Read →Guide · 7 min
Automatic markdowns: prices that follow the batch
How Datima lowers a price as a batch nears its date and puts it back: opening the feature, Off and Live, the ladder and presets, Preview changes, today's list, released variants, sold under markdown and the history.
Read →Guide · 2 min
A Clearance collection that fills itself
Datima tags every product with an active markdown datima-expiring. One automated collection on that tag gives you a Clearance page that fills and empties by itself.
Read →Guide · 4 min
Write expired stock off, and Shopify's inventory follows
How Write off zeroes an expired batch in Datima and removes the same units from Shopify's inventory: the one-time permission, the location, undoing it, and why Delete is different.
Read →Guide · 4 min
Batches across several locations
What a batch's location means in Datima, how to set it, which batch a sale takes in a multi-location store, bins, and where a write-off takes the units out.
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