Method and evidence

Product title longer than 70 characters

Measured: not a defect, a house style.

Dropped. Title length is an editorial preference, and the meta title this would stand in for is not published in this feed. Measuring the product title instead would be measuring a different thing.

Description shorter than 40 words

Measured: not a defect, a house style.

Dropped, and replaced by CD-012, which reports an empty description or one still holding placeholder text. A short description is a choice; an empty one is a gap.

Tag casing splits the facet filter

Measured: Shopify matches tags without regard to case.

Demoted to information as CD-022. The premise was wrong: a lower case tag does not split a filter, so reporting it as a finding would have been reporting a non problem.

Dimensions absent from the description

Measured: 302 of 384 products would have been flagged, 79 percent.

Rewritten as CD-020 and moved out of the findings. Most products state their size in the option values rather than the description, so the first version was looking in the wrong place, and even rewritten the answer is a question for the supplier rather than a defect.

Single value option, a dropdown with one choice

Measured: 315 of 384 products, 82 percent.

Dropped. At that rate it describes the way this catalog is built, not a fault in it.

Supplier tag disagrees with the stock code prefix

Measured: the prefix SL appears under 8 different supplier tags.

Dropped. The leading letters of a stock code are not a supplier code here, so every disagreement would have been a false alarm.

Boden · Office Lounge Chair

Observed. No measurement in the description or in the options (Seating Type, Color).

First proposal. Recover the sizes that are not published by reading the number at the end of the stock code, taking SL-01-BW-004-16R as sixteen inches, and fill in all 59 products that way.

Final proposal. Publish nothing. Ask whoever holds the specification for the seat and overall dimensions. Shopify metafields may already carry them and this feed would not show it.

Reason. The number is an internal size class, not a measurement. On the Bristol desk the code ending -16R is a piece 5 feet 3 inches wide and -24R is 8 feet, so the codes step by two while the width steps by about nine inches. The parser now refuses to read any stock code as a measurement and a test holds that line.

Still unknown. Whether the dimensions exist in metafields, which this feed does not publish. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Callum · Conference Room Meeting Table

Observed. The description reads "Part of the Amity Collection". The product is also tagged Matching-Set_Demeter.

First proposal. Rewrite Matching-Set_Demeter as Matching-Set_Amity here, and across the other 83 products where the two collection tags disagree.

Final proposal. Change no tag. Raise one question with whoever owns merchandising: which of the two tag families is the one to keep. Then migrate once, deliberately.

Reason. Not a typo. Matching-Set_ and MatchSet_ are two vocabularies, each internally consistent, with Demeter covering 11 products and Amity 7. Rewriting one into the other would dissolve a real grouping, so 84 edits became one decision.

Still unknown. Which vocabulary the storefront reads, and whether both feed different surfaces. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Frisco · Modern L-Shaped Executive Desk

Observed. The description reads "Part of the Frisco Collection". The product is also tagged Matching-Set_Pure Oak.

First proposal. Rewrite the disagreeing collection tag.

Final proposal. Leave both tags. Add the Collection_ tag the description already advertises, which is missing, so the collection named on the page exists as a filter.

Reason. Additive and reversible, and it does not depend on the vocabulary question in Q-02 being settled first.

Still unknown. None for this product. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Chevron · L-Shaped Executive Desk

Observed. The description reads "Available in four widths". The Size option offers 8 distinct sizes: 5′3″ width, 6′ width, 6′7″ width, 7′3″ width, 8′ width, 8′6″ width, 9′2″ width, 10′ width.

First proposal. Change four to eight in the description.

Final proposal. Change four to eight in the description.

Reason. The eight values are eight distinct widths. The sentence is out of date and nothing else depends on it.

Still unknown. None. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Langley · Modern Office Shelves

Observed. The description reads "Available in four widths". The Set Size option offers 5 distinct sizes: 8′ width, 9′2″ width, 10′ width, 10′6″ width (set A), 10′6″ width (set B), 12′6″ width.

First proposal. Change four to six in the description, matching the six values in the size option.

Final proposal. Change four to five. Two of the six values are the same 10 foot 6 inch width in two set layouts.

Reason. Counting option values instead of distinct measurements would have replaced a wrong number with another wrong number. The rule counts distinct measurements for exactly this reason.

Still unknown. None. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Amica · Conference Room Table

Observed. The description reads "Available in four lengths". The Size option offers 7 distinct sizes: 6′7″ length (Seats up to 4), 8′ length (Seats up to 6), 10′ length (Seats up to 10), 12′ length (Seats up to 12), 13′ length (Seats up to 12), 14′9″ length (Seats up to 14), 16′5″ length (Seats up to 16).

First proposal. Change four to seven in the description.

Final proposal. Change four to seven in the description.

Reason. The three longest sizes are invisible to anyone reading the description.

Still unknown. None. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Hershey · Modern L-Shaped Executive Desk

Observed. 28 of 28 codes carry characters outside an identifier, for example "[SL] JM-JB05-16R-MB".

First proposal. Strip the bracket and its contents from all 191 affected codes, leaving JM-JB05-16R-MB.

Final proposal. Confirm first what the bracketed prefix maps to in the supplier records, record the mapping in a field of its own, and only then clean the code.

Reason. The bracket is the only place that information appears anywhere in the public data, so stripping it deletes something nobody has written down elsewhere.

Still unknown. What the bracketed prefix means, and which system currently matches on these codes. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Buckler · Modern L-Shaped Desk

Observed. Finish Color_ holds Dark Wood. Finishing Color_ holds Dark wood grain.

First proposal. Keep Finish Color_, drop Finishing Color_, and normalise the value to Dark Wood.

Final proposal. Keep Finish Color_, drop Finishing Color_, and normalise the value to Dark Wood.

Reason. Every product using Finishing Color_ also uses Finish Color_, which is what makes it a duplicate name rather than a second facet.

Still unknown. None. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Amica · Conference Room Table

Observed. Tagged "Oval Conference Table" with no value attached.

First proposal. Delete the bare tag Oval Conference Table from all 8 products carrying it.

Final proposal. Give it a facet name rather than deleting it. Then look at this product on its own: 7 of the 8 products carrying the tag are tagged Shape_Rounded and this one is tagged Shape_Rectangular.

Reason. Deleting would lose a real grouping. The tag behaves like a collection that was never given a prefix, and the exception it exposed is worth more than the tidy up.

Still unknown. Whether this table belongs in that group at all. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Albion · Executive L-Shaped Standing Desk, Adjustable Height

Observed. Tagged "Best For" with no value attached.

First proposal. Delete the bare tag Best For.

Final proposal. Leave it and send it to whoever entered it.

Reason. Somebody meant to write Best For something. Deleting the tag hides the gap instead of closing it, and the missing half cannot be recovered from public data.

Still unknown. The value that was meant to follow. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Aureon · Front Reception Desk

Observed. 1 of 1 variants carry no code: 22′4″ width / Base Configuration / Ebony Veneer.

First proposal. Issue a stock code following the pattern used by the rest of the Zenith set.

Final proposal. Issue a stock code from the supplier records. No code is proposed here.

Reason. A reception desk that can be ordered with nothing to put on the purchase order. Inferring the code from a neighbouring pattern would be inventing an identifier.

Still unknown. The code itself, which only the supplier records hold. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Fuller · Conference Room Table

Observed. 4 of 4 variants carry no code: 26′3″ length (Seats up to 20) / Macassar Walnut; 15′9″ length (Seats up to 14) / Macassar Walnut; 19′8″ length (Seats up to 18) / Macassar Walnut.

First proposal. Issue the four missing stock codes and send the price ladder for review.

Final proposal. Issue the four missing stock codes and send the price ladder for review.

Reason. Two separate rules landed on the same table, which usually means the record was created in a hurry.

Still unknown. The codes themselves. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Levi · Front Reception Desk

Observed. 8′ width is listed at 2,920.00 and the larger 10′ width at 2,520.00.

First proposal. Raise the 10 foot price so the ladder rises all the way.

Final proposal. Change nothing. Put the 10 foot figure in front of whoever sets prices before it is quoted again.

Reason. The reading is exact and the conclusion is not ours to draw. The three smaller sizes rise in a straight line and only the last step falls, which is worth a look, but a price can be set low on purpose.

Still unknown. Whether the figure is deliberate. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Audley · Modern L-Shaped Executive Desk

Observed. 9′2″ width is listed at 3,330.00 and the larger 10′6″ width at 3,290.00.

First proposal. Raise the largest size, as proposed on the Levi desk.

Final proposal. Record it and group it with the other four for one pricing conversation.

Reason. The gap here is a fraction of the Levi one and reads like a rounding decision somebody made on purpose.

Still unknown. Same as Q-13. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Vertix · Conference Room Table, Tapered Hexagon

Observed. 94 percent of its description, outside the shared blocks, also appears on "Lynix · Conference Room Table".

First proposal. Rewrite the description so it stops repeating the Lynix copy.

Final proposal. Rewrite the first paragraph, which calls this table rectangular while the title calls it a tapered hexagon, and check the Shape tag, which also reads rectangular.

Reason. The duplicate copy is the smaller half of it. The pasted text disagrees with the product's own name.

Still unknown. Which of the two, the title or the shape tag, is right. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Skövde · Office Waiting Area Lounge Seating

Observed. 93 percent of its description, outside the shared blocks, also appears on "Resarö · Office Waiting Area Lounge Seating".

First proposal. Rewrite one of the two descriptions around what separates the two ranges.

Final proposal. Rewrite one of the two descriptions around what separates the two ranges.

Reason. Both are real products with their own codes, so the copy is the only thing that needs to change. An editorial call, recorded as such.

Still unknown. What does separate them, which is not in the public data. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Design your Workstation

Observed. Present in the feed, absent from the product sitemap.

First proposal. Add it to the product sitemap so it can be found.

Final proposal. Leave it out of the sitemap.

Reason. It is a configurator, not a piece of furniture, and being unlisted is the right state for it. It is also the whole of the difference between 384 products in the feed and 383 URLs in the sitemap.

Still unknown. None. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Vaxholm · Office Waiting Area Lounge Seating Set

Observed. No measurement in the description or in the options (Seating Type, Color).

First proposal. Add the seat and overall dimensions to the description.

Final proposal. Raise it as a request against the supplier specification sheet, covering the lounge seating range together.

Reason. Right thing to want, wrong owner. The numbers are in no public source, and 43 of the 59 products in this class are lounge seating.

Still unknown. The dimensions, and whether metafields already hold them. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Whole catalog

Observed. Every one of the 2,847 variants publishes a weight of zero.

First proposal. Estimate a weight for each variant from its size and material and write the estimates back.

Final proposal. Estimate nothing. Take the weights from the supplier packing lists, as one job.

Reason. An estimated freight weight is a number that is wrong by an unknown amount, which is worse than a field that is plainly empty.

Still unknown. Whether weights are held in another system already. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.

Modena · L-shaped Executive Standing Desk, Adjustable Height

Observed. Tagged "Color_brown" where the catalog writes "Color_Brown" 111 times; "Color_gray" where the catalog writes "Color_Gray" 118 times.

First proposal. Recase Color_brown and Color_gray so this desk stops dropping out of the brown and grey filters.

Final proposal. Nothing to fix. Recase it if the tag list is being tidied anyway.

Reason. The premise was wrong. Shopify matches tags without regard to case, so the desk was never dropping out of anything. The rule was demoted from a finding to information rather than deleted.

Still unknown. Whether the headless storefront does its own case sensitive matching, which would change the answer. Authorisation: pending. Applied: no.