# Syncing and training

AI Shopping Assistant needs access to your store’s products, pages, and content to provide helpful recommendations and respond to customer questions. Syncing your store trains the AI model and ensures it stays up to date with any changes. 

You can perform an initial sync, and additional syncs happen automatically every three days or you can sync manually, whenever you like. This helps your customers get the most accurate and timely guidance while shopping.

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## Initial store sync

You need to let AI Shopping Assistant sync your store to learn about your products, metafields, and pages so that it can make intelligent product recommendations to your customers.

After you've installed the Quiz Kit app, navigate to the AI Shopping Assistant in the menu bar, and then do the following:

**Steps:**

1. Click **Start setup**.
2. If your storefront is password-protected, enter your password and press enter.
3. Click **Sync data** to allow AI Shopping Assistant to collect information from your products, collections, pages, and metafields.

Syncing might take a minute. You can [continue setting up AI Shopping Assistant](https://support.quizkitapp.com/ai-shopping-assistant/setting-up-ai-assistant/customizing-and-styling) while syncing runs in the background.

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## Additional syncing

Syncs happen automatically every 3 days. 

You can re-sync your store any time later by clicking **Sync store** under **Sync data** on the dashboard. This updates the AI Shopping Assistant with any new changes in your store and ensures customers get the most accurate information.