Bring data in

Get product data in — once by hand to learn the model, then in bulk at the scale B2B actually operates at.

With a data model in place, filling the catalog is mostly a file-preparation problem. Create one product by hand first. It takes ten minutes and shows you exactly what the import has to produce.

The four articles below are in the order the work happens. A first catalog load runs through all of them once. After that you come back to the import for the ERP feed and to bulk edit for the corrections in between.