Batch Product Import

drollins · Post by **drollins** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:00 pm

I've seen the V5.5 batch update and batching docs but for V7 Beta2 I dont see where I can upload batches of products from the menu and didn't find anywhere in the available docs how to do this.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:47 pm

Hello,

This has been moved to our Dataport utility which runs on your local PC. It can download product/category etc data to excel csv and upload it back to the store via XML webservices.

There will be a beta available of the ultra slick new utility available next week.

hyper1 · Post by **hyper1** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:45 pm

Will the import app also accept categories?

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:51 pm

Hello,

Yes it will.

drollins · Post by **drollins** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:57 pm

I did not see or receive any announcement concerning this utility.

Is his product available now. If not, do you have a better idea of when it will be available?

I would like to get my customer the formatting he needs to upload product to his store via this utility ASAP.

Even if the utility is not ready I would still love to get my hands on the file formats to see which one will work best for my customer.

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:44 pm

Hello,

An early beta was released! Since so many people wanted the product batch upload for populating their stores.

viewtopic.php?t=5707

Product batch insert/update is working well, the rest of the data client is hit and miss.

DonAshby · Post by **DonAshby** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:05 pm

Does this utility in its present form allow you to upload attributes such as color and size along with the products themselves?

What about related products that are already assigned - for cross reference?

We see that it accepts categories too ( is that in the beta version? ) and what about subcategories?

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:23 pm

Hello Don,

Using product upload the category/sub-category creation/assignment is working, I've not tried the category upload by itself.

I doubt we'll support in CSV format these type's of one to many relationships. E.g. one product to multiple options. The data set doesn't lend itself to flat file format. However XML upload and download will be supported on virtually all aspects of the database.

DonAshby · Post by **DonAshby** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:35 pm

Thanks Mike

It is very helpful having this Product / Category upload. We have used it with success. So as I understand it, if we want to assign colors (or sizes)to our products ( which we need to do ) we can simply go into the product manager and add the colors one at a time. Or if we want to use XML, we can create a feed from our old site to the new database and do it that way.

Don

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:42 pm

Hello Don,

Sounds like you got it. Remember to backup your database before trying any of these ideas

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