Import products to vendor store

-- HikaShop version -- : 6.1.1
-- HikaMarket version -- : 6
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Hi,

A vendor asked me how he can import his products into his shop using a CSV file.
For example, the vendor already haму his private virtual shop with several thousand products and he does not want to transfer them manually.

Is there any way to import products via CSV? Another way?
thank you!

Hello,

There is no import in the front-end because it will be incompatible with the ACL (and restriction) systems.

If you want to perform an import, it has to be done by an administrator in the backend.
You can import a CSV for a vendor ; you need to add the column for the "product_vendor_id" and set the ID of the vendor for each lines.

Please be careful with import since it can automatically create categories, the CSV can point categories via their ID, which might not be the same in your store ; same for product_ids or product_code.
An import from another store can potentially update product from your own store.

The HikaShop import documentation indicates several settings to avoid such kind of issue ; but nevertheless, it requires to perform backups before.
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/2...hikashop-import.html

Regards,

Hi, Jerome!
Thank you.
Can you provide me any sample of CSV file? - I will sent it to vendor as format.

Hello,

The content of the files mostly depends on how your store is configured (custom fields, etc).
If you want to have a sample ; you can perform an "export" of few products in your HikaShop backend product listing.

Regards,

Thank you!
Will try it.