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How to: Magento Product Import

Applies to 1.3.2.3

I have recently been importing a customers products into Magento with varying success. Hopefully this post will point you in the right direction to avoid many of the pitfalls I have discovered.

I have found that the best way to import your products into Magento is to manually create a single product in each category, export the csv file of products, edit the CSV for the new products and then import again.

Export

  1. From the Admin Panel. ‘System’ -> ‘Import / Export’ -> ‘Profiles’.
  2. Select ‘Export All Products’
  3. Click ‘Run Profile’ from the left hand navigation

Eagerly waiting for Magento 1.0…..

According to Twitter, its available for download now but I am just getting ‘System Offline’. Its worse than Christmas Eve!

Seriously though I have been playing around with the various Magento beta’s over the last few months and I am seriously impressed. This really is e-commerce evolved!

Update – Its arrived!