[Ted S]

Originally Posted by The Ottoman

Doing this manually, it was taking me anywhere between 60-90 seconds per item, and that was with a copy/paste of HTML formatted data. So I saved myself atleast a half hour of data entry (and my sanity), and I've got it set up where I can throw in thousands of products in the future in quite literally under 5 minutes.

Thanks so much for sharing this.

Developing something you get to decide where you want to draw the line and while I'm sure people would like other ways to add products, I really believe that an import is the only way to go. The manual entry page is really more about formatting or reviewing an entry here and there than adding.

No matter how you do it, copy & paste thinking just doesn't scale well.

My team processes something like 10 million products [not to this mod but to a system that the mod is based on] a night from a dozen vendors all of whom format and update differently so we've become pretty familiar with every option and while we debated offering csv/tab, XML is just safer when you're dealing with rich content and an infinite number of configurations.