{"id":7382,"date":"2018-09-28T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cs-cart.com\/?p=7382"},"modified":"2024-06-14T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:50:48","slug":"new-import-in-cs-cart-faster-feature-richer-and-friendlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/blog\/new-import-in-cs-cart-faster-feature-richer-and-friendlier\/","title":{"rendered":"New Import in CS-Cart: Faster, Feature-Richer, and Friendlier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZW4OICq7Zwg\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to keep your store\u2019s catalog up to date: update the quantity, names, descriptions, images, add new products. In a small online store with 100 products, you can do it all manually. Just open product editing pages one by one in the admin panel and edit product properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For larger online stores the manual method doesn\u2019t work. Just imagine how much time you will need to change descriptions for 5000 products!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Product import solves that problem. By using import, you can update a thousand product catalog in a couple of minutes. You get a file with products from your supplier in CSV or XML format, upload it to the store, set up the import and launch it. In a couple of minutes, your catalog is updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the perfect case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in real life, different suppliers send files in various formats and with various structure. Often, column names in the supplier\u2019s file don\u2019t match product property names in CS-Cart. And this is a crucial aspect\u2014if column names in the supplier\u2019s files don\u2019t meet CS-Cart\u2019s requirements, import might be finished with errors. Then you\u2019ll have to correct errors manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make the import run smoothly, you had to open supplier\u2019s files in Excel or LibreCalc and change column names so that they match product property names in CS-Cart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new import, you no longer need to edit column names every time. You just create an import preset for a particular supplier once and use it for next trouble-free imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new import also works with modifiers\u2014functions that change the imported file content without you involved in the process. You can also schedule import via CRON and import all product images in a single file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve prepared a video presentation\u2014it explains the advantages of the new import and shows how to use its features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZW4OICq7Zwg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch how the new import works<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>You are welcome to discuss the new import in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.cs-cart.com\/t\/try-the-advanced-import-of-products\/56055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS-Cart forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow CS-Cart on <a title=\"CS-Cart on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cscart.official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a title=\"CS-Cart on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cscart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> not to miss news and useful articles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! 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