PIM guides
The long-form guides on lynkpim.app, grouped by the question you have: whether you need a PIM, how to choose one, how to structure product data, and how to meet each channel's requirements.
Start here: do you need a PIM?
What a PIM is, the signs you have outgrown spreadsheets, and what a small store actually needs.
- What is PIM?
What product information management software does, who uses it and how it differs from an ecommerce platform.
- When do you need a PIM? 12 signals
The practical signs that spreadsheets and shop admin screens are costing you time and errors.
- PIM vs spreadsheets
Where a spreadsheet is still fine, and where it starts to break down.
- PIM for small and mid-size stores
What a smaller catalog needs from a PIM, and what it can skip.
Choosing a PIM
How to compare platforms, what to ask vendors, what it costs and how a rollout goes.
- How to compare PIM platforms
Criteria and a scorecard for a shortlist, with a pilot built on your own SKUs.
- PIM RFP template: questions to ask vendors
The questions that separate a demo from a platform that fits your catalog.
- PIM software pricing and total cost
How PIM vendors price, and the costs that sit outside the licence.
- PIM implementation guide
Timeline, steps and what to prepare before you migrate.
- PIM alternatives
Shortlists next to Salsify, Akeneo, Pimcore and inriver, from each vendor's public information.
Product data foundations
Taxonomy, catalog structure, enrichment and data quality: the work that makes every channel easier.
- How to build a product taxonomy
Categories, attributes and channel mapping, step by step.
- Product catalog management
What catalog management covers and how to run it as a process.
- Product data enrichment
How to fill gaps in product records, with a checklist you can download.
- Product data modeling: attributes and variants
How to model families, attributes and variants so they survive every channel.
- Product data quality checklist
Completeness, accuracy and consistency checks to run before you publish.
- Free product taxonomy template
A spreadsheet template with Google product category IDs checked against Google's file.
Shops, marketplaces and feeds
Getting product data right for the channels you sell on.
- PIM for WooCommerce
Variable products, attributes and what a PIM changes for a WooCommerce store.
- Shopify product taxonomy, attributes and metafields
How Shopify's category taxonomy, attributes and metafields fit together.
- Google Shopping product feed guide
The attributes Google Merchant Center needs and how to keep the feed clean.
- Fix disapproved products in Merchant Center
The common disapproval reasons and how to fix each one.
- Amazon product feed guide
What Amazon listings need from your product data.
EU Digital Product Passport
What the passport is, which products need one and when.
- Digital Product Passport guide for businesses
What the DPP requires and how product teams prepare for it.
- Which products need a DPP, and when
The timeline by product group, from batteries onward.
Using LynkPIM
Product documentation: setup, imports, channels and permissions.
- LynkPIM documentation
Setup, data model, imports and exports, workflows, connectors and permissions.
- Integrations
How each shop, marketplace and feed connector works and what it syncs.
Try it on your own catalog
LynkPIM is free for up to 25 products, with every core feature included.