nopCommerce Tips: How to Import Products

Last Updated on Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:40 Written by Carole Bennett Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:00

nopCommerce provides an incredibly robust e-commerce experience, not only for the customers who buy products, but for the store owner who uses the nopCommerce admin interface to manage their online store. Today, we’ll cover one of the basic steps to taking your nopCommerce store online – adding products.

In this article, we’ll cover how to use the features that are native to nopCommerce for this task. In the future, we’ll cover third-party products such as NopAdmin that also provide product import capabilities,

Before we get started on the products themselves, let’s determine what your product categories are going to be, and get them set up. While it’s not mandatory to have categories associated with your products initially, it’s a huge time-saver to have the categories identified and associated with the products if you’re doing a bulk import.