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

The website is at apsona.com. Seems to be a store manager mod. Curious to know who might have experience with it.

Apsona now offers Apsona ShopAdmin for Zen Cart. ShopAdmin is a free tool for importing, exporting, updates, reports and business analysis for your e-commerce site.

If you have not yet signed up to use Apsona ShopAdmin for your Zen Cart application, please visit http://apsona.com and click the on “Sign up” link.

Best regards.
The Apsona team
http://apsona.com

A brief read of the 'How it works' indicates that two tables are added to the database.

Additionally, it will create two database tables with names apsona_report and apsona_filter in your database.

Just checking. You didn't mention that you did that part.

We are going to be talking to the developer since they have said that they have it working on our servers,

Need to see what they are doing different.

It calls it from the apsona server through some crafty redirecting. But if your server can't connect to the apsona server, then none of it is going to work.

DrByte:

It calls it from the apsona server through some crafty redirecting. But if your server can't connect to the apsona server, then none of it is going to work.

And that has made me think twice about using this. It seems like you are giving access to your admin to this remote server and who knows what they are doing with that data access. I have looked at the install files and there isn't much there which leads me to believe that most of the scripts are on the apsona server so you never know what they could be doing behind the scenes....

lankeeyankee:

And that has made me think twice about using this. It seems like you are giving access to your admin to this remote server and who knows what they are doing with that data access. I have looked at the install files and there isn't much there which leads me to believe that most of the scripts are on the apsona server so you never know what they could be doing behind the scenes....

Thank you. We can guarantee that no data ever leaves the Zen Cart server. We have no access to your data under any circumstance.
This is no different than any other hosted service.
For more information, please check out the following link:

http://apsona.com/pages/ec/howItWorks.html

We will be happy to discuss your security concerns and also provide a more detailed exposition of the Apsona hosted architecture. Please contact us directly from our website.

It's really looking good so far.

Hello All,

Just wondering if anyone has used something called Apsona ShopAdmin?

Available from apsona.com this software seems to be much more capable than EasyPopulate, with a better user interface and the ability fully customise how you want to update, import, export or lookup products.

The BIG problem I have with EasyPopulate is that it keeps overwriting product descriptions when I update existing products, unless I mess around in excel copying, pasting and removing columns.

I'm hoping Apsona is the answer to my prayers....has anyone got any words of advice on this?

Thanks.

Perhaps check the support thread?

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145840

Thanks, Kim, was just wondering about who was using it and their reactions. I haven't had a chance to look at it closely since I do more installing than using everything! But I did just use it to find out which images were bmp on one website. Incredible! (both that someone is using bmp and that it was so easy to do the search.)

After a bit of research, and a lot of struggling with Easy Populate, I decided to install Apsona lastnight.

My verdict:

Easy to install, easy to work with, many decent features that make adding or updating a breeze. No problems so far. Best of all...unless you tell it to, it won't overwrite any existing product descriptions when you update a product's price or stock quantity.

Not with their Terms of Service.

dw08gm - May I ask what it is about the terms of service that you find unacceptable? We do want our product to be useful, and we'll do what it takes toward that goal.

I'd greatly appreciate your opinion.

Thanks.
Apsona
http://apsona.com

Their address is also a lawyers den.

The plot thickens.

apsona:

dw08gm - May I ask what it is about the terms of service that you find unacceptable? We do want our product to be useful, and we'll do what it takes toward that goal.

I'd greatly appreciate your opinion.

Thanks.
Apsona
http://apsona.com

I will tell you for AUS$1,000,000.

What in the world are you talking about? If you have no constructive or intelligible answer here, please refrain.

If paid, I will donate half of this amount to the zencart team.

Perhaps you are referring to the fact that our physical address houses some legal offices. Our office building is a four-story structure with many offices, and we are a small company, so we need just a small space. That's why you might be seeing legal offices at the same address.

Best regards,
Apsona
http://apsona.com

Who is your company and who are your lawyers.