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Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum and to web design. I've designed a few sites for friends and family and am currently attempting a rather large e-commerce store for my brother to gain experience before getting out into the field. So I decided on using Open Cart and liked using it, finished all the design aspect of it and my brother and I are both very happy with it. But now, I am entering product into the store. Turns out, there are over 6000 products to enter! So after trying to enter one at a time only accomplishing to enter about 20 products an hour, I finally found an import/ export tool for Open Cart that allows me to fill info into the spreadsheet. Definitely helpful, but still not great. My brother has given me access to his wholesaler's websites which is where I'm copying and pasting product descriptions, product numbers and saving images from. Even using the spreadsheet format, it is still taking FOREVER to enter all the products in. I can't imagine that this is how most designers would enter products, there must be an easier/ faster way. I saw on some forum a web designer say that on e-commerce you really shouldn't charge per product because it really doesn't matter if there's 100 products or 10,000 products. I just don't understand this, since it's taking me longer to enter the products than the whole design took (which took a long time!). So I guess my question is, how do you enter mass product quickly into an e-commerce site, and also, what format do you usually receive the product info from your customers in? Do they generally provide it on disc with images, descriptions and prices? How do you quickly get this info into a spreadsheet?
Thanks!
Meg
I'm new to this forum and to web design. I've designed a few sites for friends and family and am currently attempting a rather large e-commerce store for my brother to gain experience before getting out into the field. So I decided on using Open Cart and liked using it, finished all the design aspect of it and my brother and I are both very happy with it. But now, I am entering product into the store. Turns out, there are over 6000 products to enter! So after trying to enter one at a time only accomplishing to enter about 20 products an hour, I finally found an import/ export tool for Open Cart that allows me to fill info into the spreadsheet. Definitely helpful, but still not great. My brother has given me access to his wholesaler's websites which is where I'm copying and pasting product descriptions, product numbers and saving images from. Even using the spreadsheet format, it is still taking FOREVER to enter all the products in. I can't imagine that this is how most designers would enter products, there must be an easier/ faster way. I saw on some forum a web designer say that on e-commerce you really shouldn't charge per product because it really doesn't matter if there's 100 products or 10,000 products. I just don't understand this, since it's taking me longer to enter the products than the whole design took (which took a long time!). So I guess my question is, how do you enter mass product quickly into an e-commerce site, and also, what format do you usually receive the product info from your customers in? Do they generally provide it on disc with images, descriptions and prices? How do you quickly get this info into a spreadsheet?
Thanks!
Meg