Hi.

Before I ask the question, let me give you a little history. When I first started out, I hired a person to work on the cart for me. In the middle of doing the work for me, the worker found a lucrative government job and stopped doing work for me but expected payment. This worker changed all the passwords on everything until paid. I had to fight to get control of the situation and it was very stressful. Thanks to this negative experience, I decided to learn Zen Cart, especially since there are people here on Zen Cart forums who are not stingy with good advice.

I am now just too busy to do all the work necessary when it comes to uploading and setting up new products. I've interviewed a few people along the way but they seem unprofessional. Thanks to a very bad experience, I'm going to have to see the glass as half-empty when it comes to hiring people.

Here's what I want to do.

1. Hire someone who has a good reputation and resides in my state. This way, if the worker does wrong, he/she will be subject to litigation in my state. If not, contract will have to be signed that agrees that any legal problems are to be settled in my state. Person must be located in the USA either way. Unless the work can be done offline, see below.
2. Even with legal protections in place, I would like the worker to stay off the site and do the work offline... give to me and I upload it into the cart via patch or one of the tools. Problem is, the tool to batch populate the store...is no longer available for the latest version of Zen. When, if ever, will that be brought up to speed?

Anyone feel like sharing advice how I can be accommodated? I'm sure this question will help others along the way too.

Thanks in advance.