Hi,
The support of the manufacturer in the import is also supported.
You can set data for categories in the CSV. In HikaShop database, the manufacturers and the categories are using the same structure.
In order to have a sample CSV for your import, the easier is to perform an export of few products. The export will give you a CSV for the product and his categories ; with that data you will have the structure to define a manufacturer (and categories) in the CSV.
You will be able to define the manufacturer in the column "product_manufacturer_id", where you can put an "ID" if the manufacturer already exists or the "category_namekey" if the CSV will import it in the same time than the products.
Regards,
Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.
Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
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