I need help with importing bulk products to a store in our magento multi-store configuration. the products should have the names, images, categories, descriptions, custom options (sizing with fixed pricing). I created a csv and was able to successfully upload products but the sizing did not show along with the pricing. Also the images did not appear on front end. I uploaded into media/import and edited in the three csv columns. I also created a direct under the letter system for example if the image name started with ab I would created directory a/b/image.jpg and put them in the three areas of the csv. any help is greatly appreciated.
Try: Magmi Mass Importer
Better than spending the $$ on Unirgy RapidFlow if you don't have any budget.
Please download Magmi Plugin. http://sourceforge.net/projects/magmi/
And put Magmi under the root direcotry of your site
and run www.Yourdomain.com/magmi/web/magmi.php
Now configure the magmi according to your requirment.
(Note: you need to put csv file under the var/import)
It you want to Upload images You need also magmi image plugin
Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/magmi/files/magmi-0.7/plugins/packages/(magmi_extra_plugins_20120328.zip)
Try adding one of the products to be imported manually. Then export it from the admin panel and see what corrections should be made to the csv.
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I am trying to upload listing to magento using Magmi. All works fine except adding extra images with media_gallery. I am using images from remote server and separating hrefs with semicolons as in example in docs. but still having problems.
Peace from csv:
..,media_gallery,...
..,http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/n4YAAOSw5dNWoA55/$_57.JPG,http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTQ3M1g5ODI/z/lFwAAOSwkZhWTOOF/$_57.JPG;http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTQ3M1g5ODI/z/vX4AAOSwZVhWTOOC/$_57.JPG,..
Am I doing something wrong with this column?
Found the problem, it was image name, because it is same it gets overwritten. You have to make sure that images in media_gallery has different names. In this case renaming functionality in configuration would not help, as it will rename all images to same name again.
I've been trying to transfer the entire catalog from one Magento server to another and I've been experiencing some significant problems.
I can get most of the catalog data across, but I always end up missing something like product swatches, product categories or a product's custom options. To get these across I then end up building my own scripts that queries Magento, writes the data to a CSV file of my own design, and then write another script that will add this data to the other server.
Ive been asking the other developers in house, and apparently this is how they do every migration. They spend ages building lots of custom scripts just to transfer the catalog across, and apparently the different Magento sites are so different they have to build entirely new scripts when they transfer the next site.
Is this a common experience for everybody?
I feel like there must be a better way. Does anybody know of a better way to transfer the entire catalog (not just the products, but everything) to another server? Can we not just copy across the entire SQL Database?
You can export the products using Magento export wizard by going into System -> import/export ->export
Then from export settings select Entity type Products and Export File Format as CSV
After getting the CSV file you can import the whole catalog using the Magento same wizard or You can use data flow.
The other option around to import bigger catalogs in Magento is to Use Magmi.
http://wiki.magmi.org/index.php?title=Magmi_Wiki
I hope this will help
There are many ways you can migrate your magento store from one server to another.
If you want to transfer complete magento site, then you should try with database import/export. Its easy and fast process. You can follow Site Ground tutorial for this
If you want to transfer only data such as product, catalog, customers, orders etc, then you can try magmi importer its easy and fast for importing data. Also you can try magento data flow profiles as well.
I would like to insert some products into Magento store. I want to populate the store by importing products from CSV file. Is there any user-friendly software that can help me in creating list of products with all defined earlier attributes and images and next convert it into CSV or XML file.
I can do it in Excel or OpenOffice but I look for window/table software tool that can facilitate product creation with thumbnail images of products
that I describe.
Yes you can import products in mass using magmi
http://sourceforge.net/projects/magmi/
Just you have to put magmi folder in root directory
Below is the Documentation of magmi
http://wiki.magmi.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Hope this will server your purpose.
I can upload bulk product information via csv but cannot understand how to upload bulk product images via CSV file. Suppose I have 500 images. Then please explain me how can I upload that images via CSV file?
Your CSV file with your products should have columns where you would put the products such as '_media_image' and 'thumbnail'.
The way I've learned that it should work is that you dump your images into /media/import then in the above mentioned image columns you would put "/image_name.jpg" for the product's image.
See: Magento import products with images for some more information.
In magento i have tryied to import all my product that are on my localhost to my live site but i was unable to do that. After a logn research and gooling i find my solution to import bulk product in magento. Go through this link.
http://www.ddcantt.in/2014/12/solved-how-to-import-export-product-in.html
Hope this will help you in exporting and importing product in bulk.
Ive successfully imported various products using the Magmi module. The images are showing in the front end but not in the admin of Magento I am using Magento 1.7X and Magmi v0.7.18.
Hope someone can help!
Thanks,
I had the same issue, in your CSV file, change all your _media_attribute_id values to 88. You can double check this number by exporting your products to a CSV file on your new install and check what this value is.