Import bulk / multiple products via xls, csv, excel

[infinart]

hello,

what is the best product to up load about 500 products into virtuemart? Preferably with images.

Carl

[baggeler]

I would also be interested in knowing about that one...

[infinart]

There are two promising ones:

http://joomdonation.com/components/csv-advanced.html

http://www.silvertouch.com/JoomlaExtensions/silvercsv.html

Hope that helps.

[infinart]

Thanks. That is three good options. The last one though is a re-occurring fee. I want one that allows me to upload xls's whenever I like it. So maybe option one or two is the best.

[baggeler]

Are these tools capable of handling updates, I.e. keeping everything that did not change and just update e.g. the pricing, product description or whatever?

Technically I would love to see someone linking an excel table to the SQL source which AFAIK is easily possible. However I did see nobody ever suggesting or trying such approch.

I also found a promising tool called Virtuemart Storemanager which seems to make the management of products an ease but unfortunately it is not yet available for 2.0 :-(