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

[delia]

That is so sweet of you! Make a donation to the zen cart core team please - though I could use the dough, I haven't been able to support the project as I wanted this past year so gift them! And thanks for your support.

[SPembleton]

I typically do make a donation to the core team after new updates and to ajeh and others after significant work. I will do so this time also.

By the way, many years ago the developer created a new dropdown on the tools menu to export a customer data as an iif file to allow the customer data to be input into Quickbooks. Do you know if that might still be around somewhere? I am just a small business and the cost for some of the third-party zen/quickbooks integration packages is just a bit out of my reach.

[delia]

there are still mods in the free list - if you google it, you will find the guy. He's got a free and a paid solution as well. Can't remember his name right off hand.

[SPembleton]

Thanks. I have checked over all of those, but they only work on 1.3.9 or so. I may email them to see if they have a version that works on 1.5.4

[delia]

the package I uploaded is the only thing available and they are no longer supporting it at all. That is supposed to be only the changes for 1.5.3 and 1.5.4 https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1985

[delia]

After all this time, I finally ran across a hosting company where importing products does not work. They determined it was a mod security error due to the way the server is managed. You can have your company write an exception to it if they will oblige. This problem was on westhost.com and they were very nice about it. This is when you get a message that the network connection has been lost while importing.

[waterbender]

Hi,

A couple of questions regarding ShopAdmin:
1. What are the field names needed for adding new products? If it doesn't require product id to import, is it based on product model?
2. Does shopadmin handle large store (say 60,000 products) well?

[delia]

No, it doesn't need model number. I suggest experimenting because none of that is documented.

I would think any limits on products may well be due to server limitations rather than this code. I would assume it would just run until it either finishes or the server kills the process - if at all.

[waterbender]

I read on apsona website that when importing new products, it does need the model field and it has to be unique.

How do we bulk import a list of manufacturers using this module?

[delia]

In general your best info is going to be on the apsona site. I've never tried importing manufacturers but you can always add one and then export manufacturers (I assume this is possible) and follow that outline for import.