Required fields for new product and variants impor

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Hello

I need to use .csv to create new products and import them. I have existing characteristics and
values that will be common to all products, however, each product and it's variants of those characteristics and values will have unique pricing.

How am I to build a new product in a .csv spread sheet to import it if I need to have “product_parent_id” “product_id” “product_code” in advance before I can import successfully?

I really don't want to copy a product and then export it to modify it and then re import it. If I had to do that I may as well create the products in Hikashop which is not optional because I have to many very complex products.

Thanks,

Mike

Hello,

I have another .csv question. So as you can see on the attached screen shot of a .csv export that I have three products. My products all have a 3 digit ID number that is used for the SKU.

You can see that one product "478" on row 20 has several variants and also one option that has 4 variants also.

All of the related variant information for that product appears is on rows 23 through 36 and is bellow the products, however, there is
also other variant information for the same variants/product that appear above the products in rows 4 through 19. Why is this and what
is this?

Apparently, if I want to use those same variants on another product created from scratch in the .csv, I would have to use all variants in rows 4-19 and 23-36? how would I name them?

I don't understand how to name those same variants for other new products?

Thank you,.