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Updates of large cataloguesEasy Magento Products Updates & Data Imports

October 15, 2014

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Suppliers Update

• Suppliers Update is a module that simplifies the updating and management of Magento catalogs composed by a high number of articles related to the different suppliers

Current Merchant Challenges

• Many merchants utilize multiple drop shippers, manufacturers, and suppliers to create large, varied product offerings and catalogues

• Existing product details may require frequent updates, and new product insertions may also be frequently needed

• Handling these operations manually is generally a long and costly activity, and for this reason, they are very often managed via CSV imports

• On the other hand, different data structures cost merchants considerable amounts of time and money for their handling and for data quality control

• Support for different CSV formats and field mapping between Magento attributes and CVS files is thus a valuable benefit for merchants and eCommerce managers

Suppliers Update: What It Is

• Magento extension designed to automate process of:

• Add new products to merchants’ catalogues

• Update existing product information

• Log and keep track of uploads, data edits, and other operational details

• Preview the modified or inserted articles

• Load product images via feed feature

Support for any type of CSV file

Who Should Use Suppliers Update?

• Merchants who:

• Work with multiple drop shippers, manufacturers or suppliers

• Have medium to large product catalogues

• Update product offerings or product details regularly

• Want to optimize the time of publication of new articles or updates of existing articles

• Have limited time and/or resources to dedicate to product offering management

Suppliers Update: Benefits & Features

• Allows merchants to easily and quickly create new products and alter existing product details via easy general settings adjustments and simple CSV uploads

• Feed processors can be run immediately or on regular intervals (as per set cron schedule)

Suppliers Update: Benefits & Features

• Can be used to both create new products as well as alter existing products

• Allows field mapping between CSV files and Magento fields for ease of uploads

Suppliers Update: Feed Manager

• Allows merchants to:

• Assign a feed to each drop shipper, manufacturer, or supplier

• Assign feed URLs and CSV options for data uploads

• Map CSV columns to Magento attributes /fields

• Schedule automated uploads of product data

• Activate and deactivate individual product feeds

Suppliers Update: Demo

• Grid View

Configurable Parameters: Demo

• Supports any CSV format through configurable parameters in the Feed Manager

Feed Manager: Grid View

• Lists all the the existing Feeds by:• Feed ID

• Name ? the assigned feed name

• Supplier ? each feed can have associated a supplier name

• Active ? indicates if the feed is active or not

• Locked ? feeds are marked as “locked” when they are being processed by the module

• Executed At ? is the date and time of the last successful execution of the CSV processor

• Scheduled At ? indicates the next, scheduled, execution of the CSV processor

• Load Products ? ass action for immediately execution of one or more feed at once

Feed Manager: General settings

• General settings for:• Assign a feed name

• Assign the name of the supplier whose feed we will process

• Reference the URL of the feed to be downloaded and processed. You can reference the feed address as HTTP URL, FTP URL or relative URL

• Set when cron schedule for CSV download and processingIt uses standard cron notation

• Set the feed active or not, depending if you want the feed processor to be immediately executed, or not.

Feed Manager: CSV Options

• CSV Options for having the feed processor compliant with the characteristics and format of the specific CSV:• Encoding. This is the encoding of characters in CSV

• Delimiter, to set the appropriate CSV delimiter

• Enclosure, to set the character used to enclose string values in CSV

• Escape, field is to set the escape character for enclosure symbols in CSV

• Headers. If the CSV that we are handling includes headers, we set this value to “Yes”, else, we will set it to “No”. 90% or more of CSVs will have headers, so we will generally set this value to “Yes”

Mapping & Upload: Demo

• Supports any CSV schema through mapping between CSV files and Magento fields

Suppliers Update: Columns Mapping

• Columns Mapping for map CSV columns to Magento attributes. Supports all Magento fields:• SKU

• Name

• Quantity

• Price

• Special Price

• Short description

• Full description

• Manufacturer

• Categories (support for multiple Categories separated by a pipe ‘|’)

• Weight

• Main image

• Additional Images (support for multiple Images separated by a pipe ‘|’)

Suppliers Update: View Items

• View Items allows the site administrator to have a preview of the processed items (new created products or updated ones) related to all the active Feed processors

• The results Grid allows to filter the handled items by feed name and by the other Magento attributes mapped to the CSV file

Suppliers Update: Logs

• 3 log types to maintain records & control

• Info log• Logs informative messages about feed processing, as

times for data uploads, file parsing and CSV import results

• Warning log• Logs traces non fatal occurrences as duplicated rows of

data and other non-fatal errors

• Error log• Logs fatal errors occurred in file processing

Logs and Processed Items: Demo

• 3 log types• Registry of processed items

Suppliers Update: Info Log

• Info Log traces informative messages:

• Time needed to download the remote file

• Number of total lines in CSV

• Number of skipped product lines (if any)Items could be skipped for different reasons – for example, if SKU in file was empy

• Number of updated Magento products (if any)

• Number of new created Magento products (if any)If we just update existing data (i.e. products already present in Magento), this value will always be 0

Suppliers Update: Warning Log

• Info Log traces non fatal occurrences, as:

• Empty identifiers at given rowsi.e. when SKU identifier for CSV row was empty

• Empty quantities and prices at given rows

• Duplicated rowsThis happens when the same SKU was already used in the feed

Suppliers Update: Error Log

• Info Log traces fatal occurrences, as:

• Discrepancy between the configured separator and the one used in the CSV

• Differences in the headers

This happens, for example, if the supplier changed the schema of its feed and the file processor was not re-configured

• Differences in the number of columns between CSV headers and CSV rows

• The CSV feed no longer existsThis happens when, for some reason, the CSV file has been removed

Key Takeaways

• With Suppliers Update merchants can immediately reduce time and money spent for creating and updating their Magento product catalogues

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