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REVIEW UNMATCHED ITEMS AND LINK TO EXISTING PRODUCTS OR IMPORT

Comic Shop Assistant does its best guess to match products based on distributor sku and barcode. If any items cannot be matched, you'll have to either link them manually or import them as new items.

TIP: It's important to do steps 1-5 separately. Do not open all three orders in separate tabs and upload all your FOC files and then process your item imports. You may end up creating more products than you want to. After you've imported products, it's okay to play with these orders in separate tabs, but be aware that changes in one tab will not be displayed in another until you've reloaded the second tab.

Before we import items, it's important to review any items that are missing barcodes, or you may end up with duplicated items, which always a bummer.

  1. Use the MISSING BARCODE filter to see any items that have been loaded with no barcode. If there is no MISSING BARCODE filter option, you have no missing barcodes.
  2. Each item that has been loaded with no barcode must be checked to see if it already exists in the system. Click the LINK TO EXISTING PRODUCT button next to the itemID field to search for an existing item that matches the import. Keep in mind that the existing item may not have the exact same title or price, due to different distributors naming and pricing things like it's the wild west.
  3. If you cannot link an item, you may import it as a new item by clicking the IMPORT AS NEW ITEM button.

With items that don't have barcodes dealt with, we can move on to the rest of the un-imported items.

  1. Click the UN-IMPORTED link just above the line items. Unlinked/un-imported items are shown in a list with yellow backgrounds.
  2. Review the list of un-imported items.
    1. If you think the item is already in your system, you can link it to the un-imported product. Click the LINK TO EXISTING PRODUCT button next to the itemID field to search for an existing item that matches the import. Keep in mind that the existing item may not have the exact same title or price, due to different distributors naming and pricing products differently.
    2. If the item is not in your catalog, skip it and move on to the next item.
  3. Once you've manually added any linked itemIDs you can find, click the green IMPORT ALL NEW ITEMS button above the line items. This will create new CSA items for anything you were not able to manually link.
(NOTE: Depending on the data supplied by your distributor, descriptions may or may not be imported at this stage. If you want to add the missing descriptions to your products, you can click the INTAKE link next to PROJECT MODE. This will give you an editable description field on each line)
 
 
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