Easier ways of adding new items?

Im selling a large number of individual items. As is, listing these items is a pain in the ... If you are selling 100s of individual items for < 10$ each, many not > 5$, you might understand. In my case only the product name, some descriptions, model number, and image number change with each lot.

Is there any other method of adding new items? I thought about adding them directly to the DB or, even better, listing the items on my local machine then uploading the list. Are these ideas possible? If so, how would I do it? If not, what other methods of adding lots could I try?

Thank you for all your help

See the Easy Populate module. That should help you with adding your products

There is a module - easy populate that many use as it allows use of a spreadsheet.

A bit terse to master but once you have it can be what you are looking for

Forgive the late response. Easy Populate is fantastic!!

I was able to write a simple C++ program to fill in the .csv file with the needed values. Now, I only enter 2 values for each item, a title and model. Most of my items don't have descriptions.

Thanks again for the awesome post!

Most of my items don't have descriptions.
You should really reconsider this as descriptions are a huge benifit to getting your products listed by the SE's

You are right about that.
Im not going to bother with it for individual items that bring only a few $$$. Items I have in bulk or are worth more get more time and attention.

Thanks again for the help. You saved me a bunch of time.

Im not going to bother with it for individual items that bring only a few $$$. Items I have in bulk or are worth more get more time and attention.
Then there are the product meta descriptions - -
I recently suggested for a person with 10,000+ items - exactly what you are thinking
Attack this for your best sellers first but eventually all items -
Only a few dollars times 100 or 1,000 sales might be more advatageous than alot of dollars times 1 or 2 sales

Good points, thanks