Apsona ShopAdmin - a free tool for import/mass update/reporting

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I was wondering if there are peak periods on their server I should avoid

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It doesn't work like that. When you first load up, the latest version of their code, or rather your version of the code if they have done any customisations for you, is downloaded to your machine.
Thereafter any problems you are having are on your side, your transactions don't pass through their servers.

Business model...good question, I think they do custom work.

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Originally Posted by ellivir

What is the situation of this one? Price Sorter information gets exported and imported but doesn't show the special prices in the shop (unless manually imposed from the admin).
With the Easy Populate you can do this very easily though, so is there a problem with this here or...?

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I'm wondering if the silence means that Apsona people are not able to make the DISCOUNTS working at all. I'm also wondering how it was working with EasyPopulate then. There is no problem with that one. It is just that if you use Apsona to load the products, you should be putting the discounts at the same time since those are in the same spreadsheet.

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Originally Posted by ellivir

I'm wondering if the silence means that Apsona people are not able to make the DISCOUNTS working at all. I'm also wondering how it was working with EasyPopulate then. There is no problem with that one. It is just that if you use Apsona to load the products, you should be putting the discounts at the same time since those are in the same spreadsheet.

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Done a bit searching a solution for this Specials / Discount price problem:

1) specials_id: a check which id number is going and reserving a next one
2) products_id: Special prices are based on the products_id, so it can be saved based on that or recommended is to search what is the products_id for a certain model number
3) finally just giving the specials_new_products_price and put the status on (1)

This requires of course some coding but this should be easily done anyhow.
The problem with Apsona is that the crucial code is hosted elsewhere and community can't participate on this. Above my 20 cents as contibution for the development.

There are shops that are based on the fact that the products have a good specials / discounts and that renders the whole Apsona useless if these can't be input functionally.

I tested Apsona a year or so ago, didn't figure it out but intend to take another look.

Anyway, even if Apsona lacks in some areas, can't you do discounts via Easy Populate, that is, upload specials prices with Easy Populate? Can't Apsona and Easy Populate work together where one is a little better at something? That and the regular Zencart admin.

Apsona is not a hosted solution.. ALL of the code is run locally on your site..

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Originally Posted by ellivir

Done a bit searching a solution for this Specials / Discount price problem:

1) specials_id: a check which id number is going and reserving a next one
2) products_id: Special prices are based on the products_id, so it can be saved based on that or recommended is to search what is the products_id for a certain model number
3) finally just giving the specials_new_products_price and put the status on (1)

This requires of course some coding but this should be easily done anyhow.
The problem with Apsona is that the crucial code is hosted elsewhere and community can't participate on this. Above my 20 cents as contibution for the development.

There are shops that are based on the fact that the products have a good specials / discounts and that renders the whole Apsona useless if these can't be input functionally.

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Can't Apsona and Easy Populate work together where one is a little better at something?

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Of course..they are only different transfer methods to manipulate data.

I understand also that despite the Apsona core code being downloaded from their servers on each use, it can be customised per account/client.
I am surprised that they have not responded, I had a lot of contact with them in their early days resolving language-dependent issues and found them very keen to resolve any problems.

Steve - Sorry that our responses have been spotty lately. We have been completely swamped with work. We took on another project outside the shopping-cart domain, thinking that it would broaden our reach, and it has ended up consuming all our resources and stretching us very thin. We hope to get back to a more active role here soon!

Regards.

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Originally Posted by apsona

Apsona now offers Apsona ShopAdmin for Zen Cart. ShopAdmin is a free tool for importing, exporting, updates, reports and business analysis for your e-commerce site.


If you have not yet signed up to use Apsona ShopAdmin for your Zen Cart application, please visit http://apsona.com and click the on “Sign up” link.

Best regards.
The Apsona team
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Hello, I am having issues using Aspona. It will upload everything fine onto the Aspona dashboard, but the products do not upload to zencart or onto my website. What is going on? I can see that everthing is fine on the Aspona side, but nothing on zencart. Help!

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Originally Posted by WWRepair

Hello, I am having issues using Aspona. It will upload everything fine onto the Aspona dashboard, but the products do not upload to zencart or onto my website. What is going on? I can see that everthing is fine on the Aspona side, but nothing on zencart. Help!

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The most common reasons for this are that the products have not been uploaded as enabled, or that they don't have an associated category.

Just to repeat the same thing, when you are adding a new product, it needs a master category and a category column defined in the csv.
The master category has to exist in the category column for each language you upload (in that language).

It would be a good idea to add an error check for this condition on new product uploads.