February 11, 2015

Importing Products with the Import Export with Magento 1.5 CE

This tutorial is regarding how to use the "Import Export" feature that has been introduced with Magento 1.5 and above in community edition.

I will demonstrate how to import simple product data via CSV files and CSV product related variants.

CSV format is as follows:

Have to put column names in the first table row

Make sure to keep - Field separator: comma

Make sure to keep - Text separator: double quotation marks (optional)

Make sure to keep character coding set to - Character set: UTF-8

Sample importing product format of CSV file.
We have used comma for separating column only for demonstration. Use CSV file as attached.

Column Names :
store, websites, _attribute_set, _type, sku, price, weight, name, image, thumbnail, small_image, short_description, description, status, visibility, tax_class_id, qty, is_in_stock

Values :
admin, base, Default, simple, sandy_product, 100, 0.5, sandy_product, /image1.jpg, /image1_thumb.jpg, /image1_small.jpg, sandy_product, sandy_product, 1, 4, 2, 100, 1