You can also import product attributes using spreadsheets. Product attributes allow you to specify ad-hoc labels & associated values against a product. These attributes are output on the product page and can be used for filtering products on a category page.
When importing or exporting, each attribute will have a unique column in the product spreadsheet for each unique product attribute
- The column name is very important - it is formatted in a way to indicate what the system should set the label to.
If an attribute is not relevant to a product, leave it blank.
- As with pricing, if lots of products have different attributes, it can be a good idea to break your product import into stages/groups - creating different sheets for products with similar attributes. This avoids a proliferation of attribute columns.
Advanced users may find it simpler to use a direct attribute importer if you have large attributes or a large variety across products. This is disabled by default but can be enabled by our team. Alternatively, you can attempt to manually navigate to the page by adding
/admin/generic_import_export?controller=product_attributes to your domain name.
If you do an example export you will see a format similar to this: