Stock photos for all products.

is there a way to allocate a single photo that will automatically be applied to ALL SKU's?

i'm trying to add a 'stock photo' to every listing which is just our company logo with a 'image coming soom' text.

issue is i have 3000+ SKU's and i'd like it to be an automated process so that any time a new SKU is addd, this stock image is automatically applied.

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Erik Merkley

What you're directly asking isn't easy, but Neto has a pretty good built-in way to get the same result. You'll have noticed that products without an image default to this thumbnail:

This is actually a file stored in your account which can be replaced. First you'll need SFTP access to your site:

https://galaxy.maropost.com/s/article/request-file-transfer-protocol-ftp-sftp-access

You can then use an FTP client to access these two files:

/httpdocs/assets/na.gif

/httpdocs/assets/na_L.gif

Replace both of those with your own images, making sure they are the exact same dimensions as the originals.

You may run into problems with caching of your site causing the old images to still show. If this happens, click Refresh Caches in the bottom left of the control panel.

Robbie Update

HI Erik,

Thank you, that will work great for the webstore, but what about 3rd party integrations like ebay, where we can only select the defined image fields in the listing templates?

Erik Merkley

You definitely don't want an "image coming soon" placeholder on an eBay listing. EBay are super strict about image formats and the listing will be deactivated. If they see logos and text on images repeatedly you could find your account limited:

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/picture-policy?id=4370

That's why it's better to just not apply any images until you have them - then it's easier to keep track of which products do and don't have proper images.

Paul Arnott

We did it on our site by accessing the Neto placeholder image in the FTP files, and swapping it out for our image with the same file name.

I am pretty sure I found the instructions in the help files that were available (pre Maropost), but it was a few years ago. I think the file was called na.gif (but I could be wrong)

I had to change it in three places to cover the product thumbnails, the image on the product page, and somewhere else. Sorry it's vague but it can be done.

This is the defaullt image we use.

THT-Box-placeholder