Migrating category data

You can use ShopWired's category import system to import category data from your existing website into ShopWired.

When you migrate category data, you can create categories on your website corresponding to existing categories/collections on your current website:

• All the information about the category (name, description)
• The category image and ALT tag
• The category's position within your category structure/hierarchy
• The category page's URL, title tag, and meta description

To migrate category data, you'll need to obtain a download of your category data from your existing website. Most providers should offer a category data download option (into a spreadsheet / CSV file) - if you're unsure of how to obtain a download of your category data, you should contact your existing website provider.

If your current provider does not provide an export of category data, ShopWired recommends using the product import system to create your categories instead:

• When categories are configured for a product during a product import, ShopWired will automatically create the category
• You can later add additional information into the created categories (either one-by-one or through the category import/export system)

Once you've obtained a download of your category data, you can then modify it into the required format for importing into ShopWired's category import system.

Once you have downloaded your category data from your existing website, the data will need to be copied across to a new spreadsheet file that will be used to import it into ShopWired.

ShopWired has a specific format for importing category data:

• Each column in the spreadsheet has a specific heading that must be used
• Each category record is contained on its own row in the spreadsheet
• Category data cannot be spread across multiple rows
• The parent > subcategory relationship on ShopWired is created by entering the name of a single parent category into each parent category column (described in more detail below)
• By default, you can specify up to 3 parent categories for a category. If you need to specify more, change the setting Maximum number of parent categories that can be assigned to a category described here before downloading the category import template

You can download a category import template from your ShopWired account:

1. Navigate to Products > Categories
2. Select import
3. Select download import template

Open the downloaded file with spreadsheet editing software and copy across the data from your existing spreadsheet file into the corresponding columns in the ShopWired template file.

Once you have copied across all of the data, follow the instructions here to import the spreadsheet into your ShopWired account.

When copying data across from your existing platform's data spreadsheet to the new ShopWired import template, please note:

• Each category record must be contained on a single row within the spreadsheet
• The column headings on ShopWired's import template must be retained and cannot be changed
• Data must not be entered into any columns that don't have a column heading
• Follow the definitions for each column carefully
• The Category ID column must be left blank

Once you import your category data, if you've made a mistake and need to complete the import again, you can use the delete data feature - although please be aware that this will delete all categories from your website.

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