When there is need for adding bulk products in database it can become tedious, so that is why with the help of product data entry services provide company, you can feel relief from the stress of managing them. It can become a challenge for online stores to manage and upload bulk products manually as it is very time consuming.
If you are using Magento store platform, you can use these tips for quickly upload a large number of products:
1. Bulk Import: With the help of single CSV file, you can import a large number of products very easily. You just need to understand the formatting for bulk product upload. You can simply understand this by exporting some existing products into a CSV file.
2. Bulk Images: Images plays an important part for every product. By using FTP, you can upload bulk images only in one attempt. But need to sure that images are accurately tagged and named according to their SKU.
3. Bulk Features and Categories: Every time your motive is how make it easier for your customers to quickly find the product they are searching for. For this you need to add easily identifiable categories and clear features for the product. Make a list of all categories and attributes before bulk import so you can easily correlate products with their respective categories.
4. Capping File Size: Before bulk import, focus on size of the CSV file, so that your servers would not become overloaded. For this you can make set of files with 500 products then upload them simultaneously.
5. Updating Existing Products: When there is need to update description, features, images of existing products, you can do this by bulk import features using CSV file. You just to need import the SKU fields and the fields that need to be updated. You can see the changes in product pages after refreshing.
If you don't have time and expertise to manage product upload process for your Magento based website, then you can choose Switch2eCom as your outsourcing partner.
