Posted 16 years ago on 7/18/2008 and updated 9/2/2008
Take Away:
A Dr Bott uploader. This wizard uploads DrBott.com store items to our ASPSuite eStore storefront software. We can customize it to upload to your store from any drop-shipper.
What it Does For each record in the Dr. Bott tab delimited file, it...
Uploads all "new" categories.
Uploads all "new" products.
Uploads all "new" product/category links (based on Dr Bott known categories for each product).
If an item is not in a new Dr Bott text file but is in the existing local tables, the item is marked NOT available in the store.
In all three cases above, "new" means your local tables don't know the record was uploaded. Once the record is uploaded, the record is marked as uploaded and skipped if you do a minimal update. When uploading, the Upload Wizard checks the remote database to see if the record exists. If the remote record does exist, it's updated. If not, the record is inserted into the remote database.
Typical Use of the Dr. Bott Upload Wizard
ASPSuite Upload Wizard: Dr Bott
To start the Dr Bott upload wizard, select Wizard | Dr. Bott.
Step 1: Import Dr Bott Text File
The first step is to import the Dr Bott text file into local tables. Download the latest items file from Dr Bott to your local drive, select it using the "..." button, then click Next.
Dr Bott download page - Use this link to easily and quickly go to the Dr Bott Reseller area.
Empty local tables before import - Uncheck this for most situations. Clears local tables if you ever need to start over. However, you will loose the ability to remove old items currently in the store (they become orphaned) so do NOT check this field.
Skip Import - After you've imported for the day, you can check this box to skip the long process of importing the text file. This is handy if you are uploading several categories at a time. Normally, you will leave this unchecked.
Step 2: Specify Inventory Types
Once your local tables are updated, you will get to choose what inventory statuses to upload. select all of them and click Next.
Step 3: Specify Categories
Next, you get to choose what categories to upload. select all of them and click Next.
Step 4: Set Initial Pricing
This is just the initial bulk upload price. The website is where you will fine tune your pricing. Input your options and click Next.
Step 5: Select What to Upload
Select Updates + New (minimal) and click Next.
Updates + New (minimal) - Most of the time you'll want to do a minimal update which does everything you want it to do (updates pricing info for existing items ONLY if the price has changed and inserts new items).
Master Updates and New - This option does everything the minimal update does plus it updates all the text fields with corrections fro Dr Bott. It's a good idea to do a master update at least a few times a year and perhaps as many times as once a month.
All - Never use this. If you do, you will corrupt your database and have to start over which means you also start over with the search engines with knew item numbers.
Step 6: Review and Upload
Click Next.
All done uploading!!! But, you need to clean up the data using the online scripts.
Step 7: Online Scripts
Click the online scripts link to go to the website. Following the instructions on that page.
Notes:
Do not bother removing items from a category as the upload wizard will simply put it back when it's run. Instead, spend time moving categories to a more appropriate category and renaming categories to more appropriate names. If a category is not usefull to you, then hide it.
Run this upload wizard once or twice a month then use the online tools to manipulate pricing.
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