There is no wonder why Magento is one of the leading cloud-based e-commerce platform as it provides all the unique features those are required to create and manage an e-commerce store online, it gives us numerous options to effortlessly manage online inventory of your e-commerce store and one of its vital feature is to easily import products to our online store, an online store can have bountiful of items listed on it and importing these items one at a time can be a trouble as it can consume a lot of time, in this article we will try to crack a few easy methods of importing products to the store in Magento. The Content Management System (CMS) of Magento is so advanced that user can activate intelligent filters to refine product search and every search returns with the best results, but for this to work it is mandatory to upload products in right categories.
((1) Basic Upload Using Magento Basic Features
The most basic way for importing products in Magento is using its Add Product feature that is listed on product management page under the admin panel and from over there user can easily add any product to the catalog or you can use .csv files to import products but before importing from .csv file check and verify that attributes in the file are identical to those are in the system or else the process will not work for you due to the mismatch of the attributes, if this happens you can change the attributes in the .csv file or on to the system.
This basic way to add products to the store can really be an effortless task but is not very efficient when it comes to add products in bulk because it is a slow process and can take a lot of time if there are thousands of products on the store it would take you days to upload all the product in the right category and this is where the need arises to use the Bulk Product Upload feature of Magento which is very effective to upload products in bulk on stores having plentiful of products.
((2) Advanced Feature to Import Products in Bulk
This can be a bit confusing but with easy steps to follow importing products in bulk can be done in no time and with ease, so let’s see how this bulk product importing works.
(1) Create category under the admin panel (multiple if needed).
(2) Input all the required information in the categories.
(3) Now save the categories.
(4) Go to - System > Import/Export> Dataflow >Profiles
(5) Select all the products you need to export
(6) From the drop down list of Data Transfer select local/remote server
(1) After saving and exporting all the products again hit run profile popup
(2) Now import this .csv file to your system and edit it as per your needs
(3) Now go back to System > Import/Export > Dataflow >Profiles
From over there you can easily import the .csv file and upload it after checking that you have got all the products at the right place and after uploading the file hit the run profile popup again and you are done then you just have to verify that all the products are properly listed on the store and this is how the bulk product upload feature of Magento works after a few times it will feel really easy to you to perform this task, there are few more easy options available to import products on of them is external applications.
((3) Third Party Applications to Import Products+
There are various applications available those can be used to deal with product uploading in Magento and one of them is Magmi that is a freeware and works perfectly fine it is an easy to use application with clear options this application basically focuses on import and export of products and there are so many tutorials and guides available on the internet to learn about the new interface of the application the only required thing that you need is the .csv file of the
products and this application can easily upload all the products on to the panel without any hazel in no time.
((4) Paid Extensions Of Magento
Magmi is a good choice and most of the people go with Magni but in case if you have any special requirement or you want to add some custom features to your store then you can obviously go with paid extensions of Magento, fortunately these extensions are not too costly and somewhere costs around %$50 -$100.
It doesn’t seems to be a bad deal if you are going to get one as these extensions are developed by Magento and are fast and reliable you can always go with the paid options if want an ease in your work and want to add performance to your store.
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