Having products logically grouped within Magento categories will ensure that your shoppers are able to easily navigate through your e-shop and reach the products that best suit their needs. Keeping products and categories up-to-date is a significant component in the overall usability of your site, facilitating customers who are going to buy or are merely browsing.
What is the main practice, you fall back upon to instantly renew or add merchandise? It goes without saying, Magento product import heads the list of tools for catalog management and merchants can't dispense without it if they want to maintain product catalog on sufficient level.
When appending products to catalog listings, you should indicate, what category or subcategory they will be placed to, as pointed out above. Formerly Store Manager for Magento allowed to assign products to categories having full category path for each product indicated in the file.
Starting from Manager version 2.16.0.992, Magento users get the possibility to assign products to categories by category ID as well.
If you have categories or subcategories created and are going to add new products to some categories, place them to more than one category or rearrange product-category associations, you can accomplish it having ID of categories in the file, instead of lengthy paths. This is highly convenient and now Store Manager accepts files exported with Dataflow.
Before uploading the file with product import wizard, check whether category IDs are provided for each product listing. Beside product related data to be imported, the spreadsheet must contain column responsible for categories, that will include IDs.
Proceed with usual import wizard settings, but consider "Fields Delimiters and Additional Settings" window. If you use category IDs, you must check "Use ID as category path" box here.
Another point to examine is fields association. You are supposed to correctly ascribe file columns to database fields and choose proper identifier. File сolumn containing IDs of categories should be assigned to Category Path database field.
After suitable import options are selected, start import procedure. Data upload outcomes will be accessible in the last wizard window.
Store Manager is being always enriched with new functional capabilities meant to refine data manipulations and improve shop management respectively. Identifying categories by their IDs in the course of products transfer is another maneuver to shorten time spent on pre-import arrangements.
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