re-organising my product catalog

[davowave]

I'm upgrading to 1.5 and I thought I'd take the opportunity to re-jig the categories a little. I want to move all my products around a lot, changing/deleting/creating categories.

The obvious way to do this is using easy-pop - download to spreadsheet, sort it out, upload again.

The only thing is that unless I delete all the current categories and products before uploading my re-organised catalog then the upload will add everything alongside what's already there.

Deleting all the current categories and products wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that the uniqueID then gets deleted and thus it means that the stats collected about purchased products would no-longer relate to the product - even if the model number is the same.

Can anyone think of a better way of me doing this?

[davowave]

bumpy-bump

[gjh42]

The way that will work for sure is to create or rename your current categories as desired, and move products where they need to be in admin > Catalog > Categories/Products. I know it may not be as elegant as you would like.

[davowave]

Hey there, thanks for the reply. That's the option I was hoping to avoid. I've got quite a lot of products so it would take me days to go through each one