Importing 1,000 products without a spreadsheet nightmare

Ask anyone who has migrated a store what the worst part was, and they'll say the same thing: the catalogue. A thousand products, each with prices, variants, descriptions, categories and images, dragged across platforms by hand. It's the kind of work that turns a two-week project into a two-month one.

It doesn't have to be.

The old way

The manual migration looks like this:

1. Export a messy CSV from the old platform
2. Spend days reshaping columns to match the new one
3. Re-host or re-upload every image one at a time
4. Discover halfway through that variants and tax rules didn't map
5. Start the spreadsheet over

Somewhere in there, morale dies.

The agent way

An agent reads your existing catalogue, understands its structure, and maps it onto the new store's schema, prices, variants, categories, SEO fields and all. Images are pulled, optimised and re-linked automatically.

• Hours, not weeks for a typical thousand-product catalogue
• Fewer errors, because the mapping is consistent across every row
• A clean checklist at the end of anything that genuinely needs a human eye

The goal isn't just a faster import. It's a store that's actually correct on launch day.

What you do instead

You spend your time on the things only you can do, merchandising, pricing strategy, the brand, while the tedious data-shovelling happens in the background. That's the trade we like: humans on judgement, agents on the grind.