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

Aspona was totally impressive in exporting my stuff from Zen Cart 1.39H and I know your probably tired of the questions, but if they would only come up with a working installation for 1.54 would not only be awesome, but worthy of a fee.. Great tool/Utility, change $20-30 per license and you might be surprised how many are willing to pay for something like this.

OK, off my soap box and back to reality.. Zen Cart 1.54, PHP 5.4, Godaddy Linux CPanel hosting.. Any chance of getting a working installation or at least one set of how to's all together?? All I get is "The server is not responding, Please check your network connection. Status Error." Going to blow away new 1.54 installation and start over, but really would love to have one set of working docs..

Thanks!!

Please folks - do go back at least 2 or 3 posts to see what has been posted before. Please refer back to post 608 for instructions. Apsona does not provide support and has totally dropped this. It can work - if you aren't capable of following instructions, contact me via pm.

apsona:

harlyman - we haven't had any similar bug reports concerning the product import errors you mention, but we'll gladly investigate the issue. Please send us email at support (at) apsona.com with any sample data you can provide us.

As for the other question about price updates: if you're talking about the editing or "update all" features in ShopAdmin, they are performed via product id, so they will only affect the record(s) you have selected for editing.

Hope this helps.
Apsona

Hi,

I have installed the Apsona Shopadin program just fine in Zencart. However, everything works great with my attempting to import manufacturers and image urls until I click Import then I get the following message

:System Progress Bar unavailable. Maybe some other component is using it?" My hosting service advised it is not an issue on their end. I have tried firefox, opera and internet explorer and various different cvs files and it happens every time I click to finish the import.

I see others have had this issue. Please advise how this can be corrected.

What I am using is a csv file using comma field separator and I am trying to just add the manufacturers and their urls at this time.

Just to re-iterate, Shop Admin DOES work in Zen Cart 1.54, but not out of the box.

1. Sign up and get the base files
2. Go to the support page and get the update
3. and the 1dot5 update.
4. go to post 601 and get my update
5. Now on your pc, make a directory to work in and
   extract the files from 1)
   overwrite them with the files from 2)
   overwrite them with the files from 3)
   overwrite the file with the update from 4)
   Thats the fileset you copy to your admin.

The first time you refresh the Admin, Shopadmin menu item should be installed in the Tools menu.
Open it. it should show a partially loaded window with the shop name at the top you used to sign up at Apsona.

Now it will not load completely until you make the change to the config file in post #608.

I have just done all this on a vanilla ZC154 on a local install and all is ok.

The only other issue may be if you are running your admin in ssl, then make the changes as noted in the same post#608.

While I wish Apsona would fight their corner a bit more as this software is superb, it's free and it works, they should change their site info though.

Aspona works great on 1.39H, all exported, build new Zen Cart 1.54 PHP5.3 on Godaddy hosted Cpanel, install Aspona including updates for 1.5 and does not work.

I get popup "The server is not responding. Please check you network connection. Status: error"

Cannot not find any references to this.

Yes I totally agree and you did help me get working!!

torvista:

Just to re-iterate, Shop Admin DOES work in Zen Cart 1.54, but not out of the box.

1. Sign up and get the base files
2. Go to the support page and get the update
3. and the 1dot5 update.
4. go to post 601 and get my update
5. Now on your pc, make a directory to work in and
   extract the files from 1)
   overwrite them with the files from 2)
   overwrite them with the files from 3)
   overwrite the file with the update from 4)
   Thats the fileset you copy to your admin.

The first time you refresh the Admin, Shopadmin menu item should be installed in the Tools menu.
Open it. it should show a partially loaded window with the shop name at the top you used to sign up at Apsona.

Now it will not load completely until you make the change to the config file in post #608.

I have just done all this on a vanilla ZC154 on a local install and all is ok.

The only other issue may be if you are running your admin in ssl, then make the changes as noted in the same post#608.

While I wish Apsona would fight their corner a bit more as this software is superb, it's free and it works, they should change their site info though.

Just implemented this on Z154 and it worked perfectly. It ended with the spinning circle in Chrome and Firefox which is just the java script error and resolution noted in your post #608.

Thanks Steve.

Paul

Hello there. Does anyone know where I can download Apsona Shopadmin for Zen Cart 1.5? It's not in the plugins section, and the Apsona.com website returns a 404 - Not Found page. If anybody has a copy of this I would greatly appreciate it!

Oh dear, oh dear. The site has been removed completely but looks to be reinstalled. I hope this is a temporary situation. The server that the plugins connect seems to be up because the plugin is still working. I'm sorry but without your site being registered on their servers, Apsona cannot work. If anyone who has registered needs the files because they have lost them or need the upgraded ones if you are upgrading from 1.3.9, pm me. Otherwise, please follow instructions in this thread.

If the site does not come up again at all, I'll package them altogether and post either a link to the package or else upload them to the plugins section. I don't really think it's appropriate to put in the plugins if no one new can use them though.

delia:

I'm sorry but without your site being registered on their servers, Apsona cannot work. Delia, I have not been able to get my Apsona ShopAdmin to work for some time now. It used to work great. I have tried to get it working, but still get the spinning circle thing. What do you mean it will not work without {my} site being registered on their servers? Thanks :) ps. Is there any other software/plugin that will allow me to export/import products, mass edit prices, etc. that you are aware of? Thanks!!!!!

Johnnycopilot:

Is there any other software/plugin that will allow me to export/import products, mass edit prices, etc. that you are aware of? Thanks!!!!!

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?190417-EasyPopulate-4-0-Support-Thread

mc12345678:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?190417-EasyPopulate-4-0-Support-Thread
Thanks mc12345678 !

If you got it before now, your problems are addressed in this thread - from ssl errors to 1.5.4 etc. To get it originally you signed up on their website - essentially registering it. You have an account number in your config file.

Since the servers are still up, it's worth fixing your files rather than switching to ezpopulate as mc12345678 just suggested. Ezpopulate is extremely hard to use.

I just had a tweet only a few weeks ago from someone who works at Aspona and got no indication of problems. I'm thinking the website issue is temporary because they have a viable business doing other things besides this mod.

Thanks delia. I really appreciate it. I'll run through all of these fixes again and try to get it working. To my knowledge I've tried everything in this thread, but it's not unlikely that I did something wrong.. so, I'm guessing I didn't do something correct.. ha.. I'll give it another shot.

We have heard of it not working on some servers but I don't have any hands on experience with that.

Hi Delia- I read your comment here:
"Since the servers are still up, it's worth fixing your files rather than switching to ezpopulate as mc12345678 just suggested. Ezpopulate is extremely hard to use."

I guess there is something for everyone. I used apsona and liked it but found it very difficult to use, confusing. On the other hand I thought that ezpopulate was a snap. Download, change in an Excel-like program, upload, done. You can get a lot of things from apsona, but you have to fiddle with it and learn it before you get what you want. YMMV.

Ezpopulate is very unforgiving. My clients really had a hard time with it and I usually had to tell them what was wrong with the file.

If you are wanting just to import and export, Apsona is extremely straight forward - the only thing you really have to learn is what fields are required. Now all I have to do is send them a sample file to get started.

Just easier to teach.

delia, when you said {I} had to be registered with Apsona for it to work,,,,,,, WHAT exactly is registered with them? The Website URL? I have ShopAdmin installed on 2 sites, and I still have the program and wanted to use it on another website; So, if I install it on a new website, will that work for me? How does Apsona know it's "ME"? Or can I not do that? Thanks!! @fabiene, thanks for the input. I'll install ezpopulate at some point and check it out.

If you have them installed now, you are registered. When you sign up, that config file you get sent has a account number in it. I have never tried to install it on another site like that. I have no idea if it will work. I suspect it will because it does not take the domain name to make it work - I've used it just recently on an ip address instead.

One of the things that was really nice while they were still fully supporting this, is that I was able to get them to add other database tables /mods in to your specific cart. So they could turn on things for each website. I really regret not paying them to add in my product extra fields mod!

I'm not sure what or how they were doing but you are totally dependent on them for this mod. Kudos to them for keeping everything going so long when it was never a moneymaker for them.

By the way, the actual shopadmin pages on their website are still up and working: http://apsona.com/pages/ec/sa.html

Their homepage is at http://apsona.com/pages/sfdc/index.html - I think the placeholder page that shows up is a mistake.

Question: I don't know the in's and out's of Software Licenses, open source or otherwise, but would it be possible for them to make another version of this and sell it and provide support, or do something that would make it worth their time for support of this product? Maybe charge for the 'server fee'? Heck I don't know.. ha.. I'm just thinking about the future, and thinking this will be useful for some time,, and as ZenCart gets updates, I'm afraid this program will disappear.