“CSV Uploader” is one of the most advanced plugins for TheCartPress. It can be downloaded for free. Those are the steps to load a CSV file into TheCartPress:

First of all, you need a CSV file. A CSV (Comma-separated values) file consists of any number of records, separated by line breaks of some kind; each record consists of fields, separated by some other character or string, most commonly a literal comma or tab. Usually, all records have an identical sequence of fields.

Example of CSV file:

title,price,SKU,color,size
Product One, 100.5,PONE,red,L
Product Two, 102.7,PTWO,red,XL
Product THREE, 99.9,PTHREE,black,L

Before loading the file you need to configure the loader. Next image shows the fields to configure:

Post type

As TheCartPress, CSV Loader supports any type of Custom Post type.

Which products to load

Allows to process all the file or load only new “items” or only process existing ones.

Taxonomy

Not applicable in this example.

Separator

Usually “,” and “checked” if the first line contains the columns titles.

File

Choose the file to load

The button called “Load” will load only the first four lines to allow to configure what eCommerce fields are assigned to each column. Ecommerce fields are default fields (as Price, SKU, stock, etc.), taxonomies and custom fields.

Next images shows the first products. It allows to assign Columns from the CSV file (Imported Columns) and eCommerce fields (TheCartPress columns).

The last two fields are for:

Attach these product to

No applicable in this example. It’s related to the previous Taxonomy field

Product status

To publish or not the products

Next image shows how the products are loaded in the eCommerce.

About Images

To upload images, “CSV Uploader” takes them from an URL, so you need to upload them to an FTP account. TheCartPress supports to add any number of images to a product, but only one thumbnail. Next example shows how to add images to a CSV file:

title,price,SKU,color,size,thumbnail, image1, image2
Product One, 100.5,PONE,red,L,http://example.com/thumbnail_one.png,http://example.com/image_1_one.png,http://example.com/image_2_one.png,
Product Two, 102.7,PTWO,red,XL,http://example.com/thumbnail_two.png,,
Product THREE,99.9,PTHREE,black,L,http://example.com/thumbnail_three.png,http://example.com/image_1_three.png,http://example.com/image_2_three.png,