Attributes

Attributes are the structured facts about your products — RAM, colour, weight, and so on. You define which attributes your stores export, how they’re labelled and typed, and where their values come from. Malovex then resolves a value for each attribute on each product from your suppliers and enrichment data.

Open it from Catalog → My Attributes.

What an attribute has

Each attribute you define carries:

• Label — the display name (for example “RAM”), with translations per store locale.
• Key — the export identifier (for example ram). It must be unique in your account.
• Type — text, number, select, multiselect, boolean, date, and so on.
• Unit — an optional unit such as GB, plus how it should be shown.
• Sources — the ordered list of places to read the value from (see below).
• If missing — what to do when no source has a value.

In the attributes list you can also see how many sources each attribute uses, filter by type or if-missing behaviour, and drag attributes to set the order they export in.

Where values come from: the source chain

An attribute doesn’t hold values directly — it describes how to find them. Each attribute has a source chain: an ordered list of sources (a supplier or an enrichment source, with the key to read and any clean-up to apply). Malovex tries them top to bottom and uses the first source that has a non-empty value.

1. Add the sources you trust most at the top of the chain.

2. For each source, map the key it uses and any transforms (trimming, casing, and so on).

3. Malovex resolves each product’s value by walking the chain until a source returns something.

When nothing is found

The If missing setting decides what happens when no source in the chain has a value — for example leaving it empty or falling back to a default value you specify. This keeps your exports predictable when source data is patchy.

Controlling values

For select and multiselect attributes you can restrict the allowed values to a whitelist, so any unexpected value from a source is dropped. Multiselect attributes can also split a source’s text on characters you choose (like / or +) to turn one field into several values.

Overriding a single product

Attributes here define resolution across your whole catalog. To correct just one product’s value for your store, use Edit store content — your override always wins over the resolved value.

How many attributes you can have

The number of export attributes you can define depends on your plan:

Plan	Export attributes
Starter	100
Pro	1,000
Enterprise	5,000

If you reach the limit, remove attributes you don’t export or upgrade your plan.