Originally Posted by
DrByte
2. If you do decide to import data blindly into your store (not recommended), keep the following in mind:
a) DO NOT assign a password to those records. Better to leave them blank and have them use the Forgot My Password option to get a new one, otherwise you'll be giving everyone the SAME password, which is a huge security problem.
b) You MUST NOT import only to the "customers" table. A customer record consists of data in three tables: customers, customers_info, address_book. If you don't enter in all of them, and if you don't cross-reference them to each other, then you'll end up with confused data, and lots of errors in your admin when accessing those records, and those customers will have difficulty using checkout. In short, it's not recommended to be blindly importing a CSV into the customers table. It's more complicated than that.
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