- Go to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Categories
- Add your Product categories here but do note your category ids, you can make a list of your category ids in a notepad file.
- There might be a possibility that you need to define extra attributes for your products so for that go to Catalog >Attributes >Manage Attributes and click Add new Attribute. You can also save your Attributes sets based on the attributes you have defined.
- Now go to Magento Admin > Catalog > Manage Products
- Add four to five products manually.
- Now go to Magento Admin > System > Import/Export > Profiles
- Click Export all products.
- In Data Transfer choose Local/Remote Server (If you choose remote ftp, then you will have to provide the ftp information)
- Any select Local Server (though its upto you) and click Save Profile.
- Now click export all products again and then click Run Profile on your left.
- This will save a csv file of your manually added products on to your local/remote folder
- Download that csv file on to your computer using any ftp client (filezilla).
- You will have a csv file having columns of all the product attributes such as store, websites, attribute_set, type, sku, category_ids, has_options, name,meta_title etc
- Populate these columns with your products and add the category ids that you had already saved in a notepad file in category_ids column to properly assign the products to their respective categories.
- When you are done, go again to Magento Admin > System > Import/Export > Profiles and click Import all products this time.
- Click Upload file, browse for that csv file and then click Save Profile. (Or you can upload the csv file via ftp client such as filezilla to var/import folder)
- Now again click Import all products, click Run Profile, Select the csv file that you have uploaded from the drop down and then click Run Profile in popup.
- Products will start importing into your Magento Store
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