Are you an online entrepreneur or a drop shipper who is looking to add products on your website? Not just quickly and easily, but without any problems or errors as well? Well, you have just stumbled into the right article! Read on for information on how to solve your problem.
One of the biggest problems any website owner faces is how to make a site receive input. Let us just say that you are trying to put information on your site about the products including some pictures and a shopping cart. The process of adding this information might mess up the whole website if a code is used which is incompatible with the site’s program. You might experience a flipped picture; numerical characters might appear instead of the product description, which should come in paragraphs or sentences; or worst – the website might crash.
What is CSV?
CSV format is a very flexible computer code, which can be read by any program. It can be read by spreadsheet programs, word processors, or even by a simple notepad program. It could also be read by any operating system like Windows, DOS, Linux, or Macintosh. In short, it is a universal computer code.
We’re not going to talk about code in this article, because if you are a programmer, you already know about this. However, if you are an entrepreneur, you might need to hire a programmer to write the code. You also might need to know about CSV to make sure you hire the right person.
What are the benefits of using CSV with my Product Feeds?
Since CSV is a basic format, there will be no errors experienced by your site. In addition, your customers will never have any disappointments because they will never get any errors when they try to download something from your site, or when they carry out some activities on your site irrespective of which web browser or operating system they are using. CSV can also help you save a lot of time by writing many codes, and doing some tests in your site’s user interface because the coder can just write the upload/download script in a CSV format then everything will run smoothly.
If you are a drop shipper with an online store, product feeds are a godsend, they take all the heartache and hard work out of getting product information to your shopping cart. Most reputable drop shipping wholesalers now supply their customers with a product feed which contains their entire product range, it usually includes multiple images and detailed product information such as price, weight and a full description. As most carts are compatible with these feeds you can upload literally thousands of products in just a few minutes where it would have taken weeks of work to do it manually.
