Good morning!

I'm running ZC 1.5.5d at www.tattingcorner.com

Currently, I have a company who does pretty much everything, except I load new products manually and maintain the store side. But I have a product launch coming up with around 2000 new listings, and I'm losing the company that would normally do that for me so that I don't have to load them one by one. The new companies I'm quoting for hosting, etc., don't perform that sort of service.

The company owner has told me that he can give me FTP access to the server so that I can have a plugin that will allow me to do bulk product upload. Having never done anything like this before, I came to the forums looking for answers. I've looked at Easy Populate Version 4 (probably not an option because I don't use Open Office, just Excel), Apsona, and DBIO.

I have to confess I don't understand a lot about PHP, so my questions are going to be a little on the blonde side:
- Will these programs also upload the image files?
- Do I need FTP access in order to run these programs?
- Which is the easiest to use from my list above, or are there others I haven't found?

Thanks!

Lisa