Hi,
I am upgrading a clients store from osCommerce to Magento, there are no special requirements that make the store setup complex however, manually entering in 100 separate products seems it would be pretty tedious.
Does anyone know of a quicker way to initially set up products, other than manually adding each product via admin?
Thanks!
Sorry I don’t know your answer but you reminded me I have a question. Is magento like bigcartel at all? By that, I mean can you create a store totally on their server? Or do you need to buy webspace of your own from godaddy or something, then install PHP scripts and stuff?
@vessio you should be able to import products from the admin interface using a csv file. You might want to look into that. I am sure the magento website has something about it in the knowledge base too.
@svcghost Magento Go - Hosted eCommerce for Small and Emerging Merchants will host your estore for a fee. you can start up with a 30 day trial. they also have a community version of their software that you can download and install to your own web space. i also want to point out that it would be cheaper for you to get web hosting and install magento to it yourself. their lowest plan is 15 bucks a month and you can get shared hosting for 10 dollars or less. only if you start to get heavy volume sales should you go with more specialized services.
also guys google is your friend. don’t be afraid to use it.
You can upload all your products & the specifications attached to them through the import csv function – all you need to know are the appropriate db field names as your csv header & it will import the info in the correct place.
Magento Go.
To import your products go to System>Import/Export>Import and then import a completed CSV file with all of your products.
If you set up the original store using sample data you can export a csv file of all products to show you the format that the import data needs to take.