Move your products into Swipee

You do not have to type your shop in item by item. Inventory › Move to Swipee takes your existing list, works out what each column means, shows you what it is about to do, and adds nothing until you say so.

Four ways in

All four end at the same place: a full list of what Swipee understood, which you check and correct before importing. If you are photographing a book, read Photograph your stock book as well — it covers the parts that only apply to paper.

What happens, step by step

1. 1
   Upload. Your file or pages are read. Nothing is written to your shop.
2. 2
   Check columns. Swipee shows what it made of each column — Product, Price, Cost, Stock, and so on — and you fix any it got wrong. A column read wrongly is corrected here, not back in Excel.
3. 3
   Review. Every row, with what will happen to it: new item, update, or left out. Rows with a problem are listed first.
4. 4
   Import. One button. This is the only step that changes your shop.

The review screen

Rows are grouped so you can work through the ones that matter:

• Rows that need you — something is missing or unclear. A new item needs a name and a price; without them the row cannot be imported.
• New products — these will be added.
• Already in Swipee — we found an item you already have. By default these are left alone.
• Every row — the whole list, in order.

Fix anything in place with Fix here, or use Leave out to skip a row. Nothing you do here touches your shop.

Items you already have

Swipee matches your list against your catalogue by SKU first, then barcode, then name. When it finds a match you choose once, for the whole import:

• Keep what I have — your existing prices and stock are untouched. This is the default.
• Update them from the file — the file's prices, costs and stock replace yours.

Items are never merged silently. If a row matches something you already sell, the review screen says so before you import.

Undo an import

If an import was not what you expected, open it from Earlier imports and choose Undo. Items it created are removed. Items it changed go back to what they were, unless you have sold or edited them since — those are listed and left alone, because undoing them would undo your own work too.

Limits

• One file at a time, up to 20,000 rows.
• Up to 40 pages in a photographed or PDF migration.
• Only the owner and managers can run an import.

Next steps

• Photograph your stock book
• Add an item to your library
• Variations and SKUs