{"id":6982,"date":"2017-03-23T08:29:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T08:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:36:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T08:36:01","slug":"how-to-bulk-import-products-into-zencart-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/how-to-bulk-import-products-into-zencart-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"How to bulk import products into Zencart 1.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\n\tIf you want to import products in bulk into Zen cart then follow the steps below\n<\/p>\n<ol style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: decimal; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tDownload&nbsp;EasyPopulate 4.0 (EP4) module for Zencart by going to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chaddro\/EasyPopulate-4.0\" onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(&#039;\/outgoing\/github.com\/chaddro\/EasyPopulate-4.0&#039;);\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(30, 115, 190); text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/chaddro\/EasyPopulate-4.0<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tChange the name of the admin directory to match your Zen Cart Installation.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tUsing Filezilla (ftp), upload all the files in admin directory to your site maintaining the directory structure.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tUpload the additional file in&nbsp;zencart 1.5 extra files folder.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tCreate a folder &lsquo;temp&rsquo; in the root of your zencart store. You may edit the uploads folder by going to&nbsp;Configuration -&gt; Easy Populate 4\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tAdd 2-3 categories and products manually.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tThen go to Tools &gt;Easy Populate 4\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tClick on&nbsp;Complete Products (with Metatags) to export the csv. This will save the csv to the uploads directory (temp folder)\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tDownload this csv file and open it with Open Office Calc or Microsoft Excel.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tPopulate this csv file with your products data.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<ul style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: disc;\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\t\t\tv_products_model has to be unique, any record with blank&nbsp;v_products_model will be skipped\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\t\t\tUpload all your images in your zencart images folder and add the name of the image with extension to&nbsp;v_products_image column in the csv.\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tWhen your csv is ready, go to Tools &gt; Easy Populate 4 and&nbsp;Upload EP File (Choose File and then click Import File)\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tWhen the file is imported, click &ldquo;Import&rdquo; against that file and your products will be imported into your zencart store.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tAfter the import is complete, you can have a look at Import Results for the no of records inserted and updated\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n\t\tFor more details visit<span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zen-cart.com\/showthread.php?190417-EasyPopulate-4-0-Support-Thread\" onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(&#039;\/outgoing\/www.zen-cart.com\/showthread.php?190417-EasyPopulate-4-0-Support-Thread&#039;);\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(30, 115, 190); text-decoration: none;\" title=\"EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Easy Populate 4 Support Thread.<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to import products in bulk into Zen cart then follow the steps below Download&nbsp;EasyPopulate 4.0 (EP4) module for Zencart by going to&nbsp;https:\/\/github.com\/chaddro\/EasyPopulate-4.0 Change the name of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials-help-fix-bugs","tag-import-products-into-zencart-1-5"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5.jpg",225,225,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5.jpg",225,225,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5.jpg",225,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5.jpg",225,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5.jpg",225,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5.jpg",225,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bulk-import-products-into-Zencart-1.5.jpg",225,225,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Aj","author_link":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/category\/tutorials-help-fix-bugs\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Tutorials<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"If you want to import products in bulk into Zen cart then follow the steps below Download&nbsp;EasyPopulate 4.0 (EP4) module for Zencart by going to&nbsp;https:\/\/github.com\/chaddro\/EasyPopulate-4.0 Change the name of the&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}