What's the Best Export/Import Product Module to Buy?

[chetwyn]

Hi everyone.

 

It's come time now for us to speed up product loading times. It's really manual atm using the out-of-the-box load tool. It's a little hard to get the combinations and it cant load features really that well.

 

We want to buy a addon that lets us rapidly upload new products, combinations and features. I've seen Store Manager. Anyone had any experience with this?

 

I'm really calling on the strength of the Prestashop community to help us quickly pick a addon to buy. Our budget is up too $1000.

 

Please help as there are so many out there. Basically the most we've done so far it a google search and also looking into the prestashop's addons site.

 

Please help. We have around 5000 new products and images we need to load.

 

We are running 1.4.7.

Edited August 29, 2012 by chetwyn (see edit history)

[chetwyn]

Hi Myusbjey

 

We're really just after a module pre-written we can buy and go from there. Any ideas which one is the best ?

[chetwyn]

bump ..

[chetwyn]

bump... has anyone bought any of these product import/export modules before, any recommendations ?

[chetwyn]

Hey - thanks for your feedback!

 

Yes, we started off with that but non-technical people can't really use it. The guy who will look after the uploads is soert of non-technical buyt pretty good with excel.

 

The default tool struggles with features and combination plus you need to know all the id's

[hellothere]

Hi, I bought Store Commander, still getting the hang of it. But support has been good. They just released some documentation that gives you a glimpse as to what it can do.

 

http://support.storecommander.com/entries/21533786-brand-new-documentation-on-store-commander

 

if that fails,

 

http://www.storecommander.com/lang-en/prestashop/261-pdf-documentation.html

 

 

hope that helps

 

phil

[itcwebman]

I'm interested if anyone can suggest a module as chetwyn originally requested as we have a lot of users around the country uploading products so a program like Store Commander doesn't really work for us (besides it's a little over budget )

 

Most users would be fine with Excel, so surely there must be something to simply import a excel sheet?

 

Thing that that concerns me is how you get the images in without a lot of work...

Edited September 11, 2012 by itcwebman (see edit history)

[itcwebman]

Just came across this: http://addons.prestashop.com/en/bulk-update-prestashop-modules/3535-products-and-combinations-manager.html

 

Not sure if it could be combined with this: http://addons.prestashop.com/en/bulk-update-prestashop-modules/5553-Multi-Image-Changer-Uploader.html

 

to get the desiried result?!

[Netpreneur]

We have been watching Store Commander quite closely too, but it doesn't seem to support Prestashop 1.5?

[Bejo]

hi i suggest you to read http://help.prestashop.com/en/9/tools?query=cms#ExploringPrestaShop%27sTools-Import you can edite csv to import product to quick upload product.

 

"Enabled";"Name";"Categories";"Price";"Tax rule ID";"Buying price";"On sale";"Reference";"Weight";"Quantity";"Short desc.";"Long desc";"Images URL"

1;"Test";"1,2,3";130;1;75;0;"PROD-TEST";"0.500";10;"'Tis a short desc.";"This is a long description.";"http://www.myprestashop/images/product1.gif"

0;"Test 02";"1,5";110;1;65;0;"PROD-TEST2";"0.500";10;"'Tis also a short desc.";"This is a long description too.";"http://www.myprestashop/images/product2.gif"

1;"Test 03";"4,5";150;1;85;0;"PROD-TEST3";"0.500";10;"'Tis a short desc. again";"This is also a long description.";"http://www.myprestashop/images/product3.gif"

 

how i can include shipping weight ? and i also would add attribute like weight, height, load roatation? it's used combination import ? where i can find the full guide. thank for info!!

[eternalc]

Hi all,

I'm getting my head around this a little. Getting images in is OK with the standard prestasop CSV import, as is features... not so good combinations.

 

Features: we add them to the end of our excel (as you need to customise them on import to tell the importer what the feature is called). ONly adds one feature item per feature group though (e.g. a dress can only be red not red AND blue)

 

Images: Just upload them to a directory (that isn't going to move) and specify the url. The add these (comma separated) to your excel file. e.g. http://sitenam/imagedirectory/product.jpg

 

Combinations: No way to get these in by default it seems... need to add them after the fact. Bought the clone combinations module to save time with this (we have a lot of products with similar combinations) - after 10 minute's use it seems very good!

 

http://www.sitolog.com/en/clone-duplication-products/58-module-prestashop-combinations-cloning-.html

 

Cheers!

[eternalc]

Another thing - I used the free app "openoffice" to save the csv file as ; delimited instead of comma (I know you pedants, then it's not a CSV!). Excel doesn't give you the choice of delimiter (at least on mac)

[SITOLOG - F Bugnet]

Hi,

 

You can also have a look at this PrestaPricing tool. Great mass import features, particularly regarding the product pictures.

 

Rgds

Franck