Question : import product catalog from iceCat to VirtualMart

Hello everyone,

I've followed someone instruction in this forum on how to import product from IceCat into VM.

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If you get your confermationmail from ICEcat then you know your access to there catalogs is activated, so you can put an extra field in your CSVI-"import_products" template -> product_url, you fill it with the ICEcat url discribed in the ICEcat docs:

http://prf.icecat.biz/index.cgi?prod_id=XXXXX;vendor=YYYYY;shopname=ZZZZZ

XXXXX = your product number
YYYYY = your vendor name
ZZZZZ = your shopname => login (not organisation)
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I follow the steps above by put that URL in a CSV file. field delimiter is set to "," and delimiter auto detect is turned off.

When i execute the steps above, it always result in an error saying mismatch delimiter.

Please help. It's urgent.


Thanks in advance,

darakok

Answer : import product catalog from iceCat to VirtualMart

Hi I recently setup an account with iceCAT to see how this works.

A quick fix, which we did with another droppershipper csv file that didnt work was copy and paste the document into excel

Then run a macro to split the cells on each delimiter.

Then add in a column between each new cell and add in teh correct VM delimiter.
YOu can delete any columns of stuff that VM wont use. (rename the headers to VM headers also)

Finally write a simple concantenation formulae in the final column

=concantenate(a1+b1+c1)

a1 = XXXX
b1 = ,
c1 = YYYY

outcome = XXXX,YYYY

and voila you can create a perfectly working csv import for VM.

This is really useful for the times you have a csv that has wrong info or extra stuff VM wont and cant use.