How to Bulk import/export the products on Prestashop Marketplace using a CSV file? PrestaShop has always been one of the popular platforms for developing an eCommerce site. Because of its abilities to provide a huge flexibility for installing a number of add-ons on your PrestaShop store, it has already gained a huge wave of popularity among the PrestaShop marketplace owners. The users of Prestashop marketplace can now get an option to import or export a bulk of products on their marketplace. The core version of PrestaShop marketplace module is itself capable of managing a huge amount of products and sellers on the marketplace, in addition to this, Knowband has introduced an additional PrestaShop plugin for its marketplace module which will enable its sellers to add and update products and their combinations in the easiest way using the CSV file import feature.
The PrestaShop Marketplace CSV Import/Export Addon is a perfect solution for the sellers to bulk import products, product details, and product combination on the PrestaShop marketplace module by utilizing a CSV file of the same. Here are some useful tips and instruction you that you should strictly follow while importing a CSV file of products on your marketplace store: Tips to import CSV file using PrestaShop Marketplace CSV Import/Export AddonBefore importing any CSV file you should download the sample CSV file for product upload that is given to download in the CSV import/export section of the Knowband marketplace. You refer to the downloaded sample CSV file for the format of the CSV file you
need to prepare for product upload or update. Follow the format and sequence of fields exactly as given in the sample CSV file. Do not change the sequence of the columns already given in the file. Enter all the necessary details asked to fill in the CSV file. You can omit the optional columns which are not marked as “*” in the sample file. Please note: do not omit any field which is marked “*” otherwise your CSV will not be uploaded. Knowband wants you to use separators other than ‘:' or any multi-value separator as they are already used by the plugin. You can use comma (,) separators. In CSV file, the first column for product Id is always kept as zero ‘0'. Do not give a product ID other than ‘0' as a default product Id is automatically generated when the product is successfully uploaded on the marketplace. You can download a file for assigned categories for you by the marketplace from the same section where you downloaded the sample CSV file. By referring this CSV file for assigned categories, you will know the Ids of the assigned categories for you. Utilize the ids to provide them in the CSV file for product upload. You can provide multiple categories Ids to a single product by using the comma as a separator. Please note: In the adjacent column of category Id you have to provide one default Category Id that can be anyone from the multiple, comma separated, Ids you have given for a particular product. You can set the features of products by providing a feature name and its value, for example, Composition is a feature which can have a value like , cotton, plastic, nylon etc. Please note : you can give multiple features to the product by using a comma or any other multi-value separator. You can download the list of allowed features on the store by clicking ‘Download Features' button. Set the combinations of products by providing attribute name and its value. For example, attribute name can be Color and value can be Blue, so, Color:Blue is the correct format. Similarly, you can provide multiple attributes using the comma separator. For example Color:Blue, Size:Medium, Genre:Kids So, these are the useful tips you can follow to experience a hassle free product import
to the marketplace using a CSV file. You can import a large number of products in a single CSV file. Strictly follow the steps and instructions to avoid any kind of error with your CSV product import.