"Magento 2 Product Import"

How to import & export Magento 2 categories with custom separators

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Since category names on an e-commerce website may contain commas, the export process may recognize them as separators, creating new categories in your export file. The same issue impacts your category tree on import: since the comma is considered a delimiter, a long category name can be split into several new categories. Below, we explain how to import and export Magento 2 categories with custom separators to avoid these issues. As usual, you will need the Improved Import & Export extension for Magento 2 since the platform’s default data transfer instruments do not support category import or export, nor it lets you use custom separators for category names when you import and export products.   Continue Reading

How to disable products not available in an import file for specific Magento 2 websites

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Magento 2 Development; Magento 2 tutorial

We’ve already explained how to update Magento 2 products that are not available in an import file. Today, we explain a more specific case: you will learn how to disable products that are not available in an import file. Moreover, there is a possibility to disable the on specific Magento 2 websites. Of course, you won’t be able to do that with the default Magento 2 import tool. You will need the Improved Import & Export extension to transfer the update as intended.  Continue Reading

How to import products to Magento 2 and set their status to Out of Stock automatically

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Magento 2 Development; Magento 2 tutorial

Chances are, you import products to Magento 2 but their status doesn’t change to ‘out of stock’ if the imported quantity is 0. It may look confusing or cause issues in other processes that require this information. However, there is a way to address this issue without editing your data files or applying stock status changes manually. Below, we explain how to import products with 0 quantity to Magento 2 and set their status to ‘Out of Stock’ automatically. You will need the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension and a couple of minutes.  Continue Reading

Improved Import / Export Magento 2 Extension Manual

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In this article, we’d like to draw your attention to the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extensions. The following blog post contains all the information about the data transfer module. Below, you will find the Improved Import & Export Extension manual that sheds light upon all the key aspects associated with the plugin. We describe its installation, configuration, and import/export transfers, teach you how to add a new import and export job, talk about import and export processes associated with different entities. You will also discover various nuances of running data transfers via CLI, automating processes, using extension customization endpoints, and performing troubleshooting. Various use cases and specific features are also described in the manual.

Improved Import and Export extension allows importing and exporting CSV/XML/JSON files with product data and product images to Magento 2. The files can be imported from a remote FTP/SFTP server, Dropbox, direct URL of a source CSV file,  Google Sheets, etc.  In addition, the extension offers a dedicated category import from CSV files, import of attribute values and new attributes on the fly, import job scheduling with cron jobs, and other features.

Besides, you get advanced export capabilities, including order export and export jobs, with attribute and table field mapping.

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