Managing  categories is a very important step for all for shopping cart owners.  We at Apsona have incorporated a lot of user feedback  from several Zen Cart and osCommerce shopping cart owners and have enhanced Category imports.

ShopAdmin is flexbile. You can choose to import categories independently and then import products to those categories or you can choose to import new products and create new categories to those products on the fly. You can also have a single product in multiple categories.

Categories in ShopAdmin can be found under the Products table tab. Click  and the categories page opens up with two panels.  On the left side panel you will will see the category name and its parent( if there is a parent). Click on a category name and the details to the category show up on the right side panel. You can also add a category manually on this page as well.

You can import products into multiple categories with the import wizard.  The import process is  the three steps – pasting data, matching or lining up fields and validating data before clicking the import button. Whether you are importing just categories or products and categories the import process is the same. Infact, the import process is the same across all tables in ShopAdmin.

Product categories are also multi-select. Some users preferred a visual tool to edit and link their products into multiple categories. ShopAdmin accommodates that. Click on a product and select the category field. All the category names drop down. Check the boxes before each category name and save. The saved product is now linked to multiple categories at once.

So whether it is importing a whole list of new categories or manually linking a product to multiple categories, you can do it with Apsona ShopAdmin and see the changes instantly in your Zen Cart or osCommerce shopping cart.

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