I'm still strugglin with the understanding of the perfect and shortest way to import an absurdly large list of products in my hikashop.
I want to export a csv of a similar product to use it as a template for the others. is this posible?
I have lots of products with variants and diferent prices/images for each variants and i want to add them in bunches.
By now i have realized that for the way i'm organizing my store is not to good to import 9000 product at once and knowing that i have to create the variants by hand i think the best way to go is:
1) Create the variants the product category contains.
2) Prepare the csv of that category in particular
3) Import the csv
4) Repeat 1,2,3 untill finish the store.
But i haven't understood the suggestion on this post
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-Lets say i have a "Wires and accessories" with ID 91 and a subcategory called "Wires" with ID 166
-In the "Wires" Category there will be products only with max two caracteristics, Diameter and Color
-The products in the "Wire" Category can contain one of those caracteristics, both, or none of them
-Each variant have its own SKU code and in some cases they could have a diferent image diferent from the one on listings.
so, is this sintax for the csv correct considering a Sample Wire in three diferent colors with 5 diferent diameters?:
Is this going to:
-Create a product with the name of "Sample Wire" and a code of sw-81
-Asign the color caracteristic to it
-Asign the diameter caracteristic to it
-Asign a diferent price as indicated for each variant
-Modify the product_code for each variant
-Change the image for the variants as desired
I dont want to mess everithing up when i begin importing my products, i need to find the right method to do this.
I have too many products with a lot of diferent caracteristics and sometimes i think this is simply impossible to automate.
I need to do it organizedly because i want to have some kind of coherence between my spreadsheets so i can use them to automate the creation of the printed catalog directly in indesign with the datamerge tool.
If i achieve this i will write a neverforget tutorial on catalog automation.
Thanks in advance