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The Best Way to Merge Shopify and eBay Data for Google Sheets Import
If you're doing google sheets import by hand right now, here's the fastest path from "two exports" to "one usable sheet," and why the manual version keeps breaking.
Step by step
- Decide your target columns once. Most people settle on Date, Channel, Order ID, and Total — set that up in CSV Experts and you won't redo it.
- Import the Shopify file first. The first time you see this file shape, you map each of its columns to your target list.
- Import the eBay file the same way. Its columns get mapped once too — after that, every future file with this shape merges with no extra clicks.
- Check the merged totals. Dates and numbers are normalized automatically, so a European "24,00" and a US "24.00" both land as the same value.
- Export. CSV or Excel, ready for google sheets import.
What actually goes wrong if you do this by hand
Shopify gives you a Created At timestamp that includes a timezone offset, while eBay gives you Sale Date shown in the seller's local time — line those up manually across a few hundred rows and it's easy to miscount a week. On top of that, Shopify's export exports one row per line item by default, so an order with 3 products becomes 3 rows unless you export the summary report instead, and eBay's the seller hub export format changed more than once, so column names can differ depending on when the report was generated. Individually those are minor quirks; combined into one spreadsheet by hand, they're where most reconciliation errors for google sheets import actually come from.
Why it matters for google sheets import
A clean Google Sheets dashboard across channels starts with a single sheet that already has matching columns.
Just want the quick column-difference reference instead? See the short version.