Comic Shop Assistant can import Moby data really well. We can also bring in some big chunks of data from your Comic Hub, ComicSuite, Shopify, and Manage Comics systems. But you say you have a home-brewed system, and you want to make the switch to Comic Shop Assistant? We can do that!

 

Here's a list of what we need from you and what you can optionally send us.

 

With any of these categories of data, if you can also export whatever unique identifier your system uses for each line, we'll have better options for importing things like subscriptions and pulls for your customers.

 

Custom imports may cost extra money or delay onboarding. Contact us for details.

 

CONTACTS (required)

  • First name
  • Last name

 

CONTACTS (optional)

  • eMail
  • Opt out of email marketing flag
  • Phone
  • Street address
  • City
  • State
  • Zip
  • Country
  • Subscriber box number
  • Start date
  • Comments or notes about the customer
  • Company name
  • Active status (1=active, 0=inactive)
  • Date of last transaction
  • Birthday
  • Pronouns
  • Tax exempt

 

ITEMS (required)

  • Title
  • Your price
  • Category
  • At least one barcode (preferred) or Diamond Stock Code (if you want to merge your catalog with ours)

 

ITEMS (optional)

  • Description
  • MSRP
  • Publisher
  • Qty in stock
  • Qty ever sold
  • Diamond series code
  • Genre
  • Issue number
  • Qty ever received
  • Restock mininum point
  • Date first in stock (useful for aging reports)
  • Item notes
  • Image URL
  • Price on the fly flag
  • Item status flag (1 = on, 0 = off)

 

PULLS (required)

Pulls are what you have set aside for your customer.

  • Your legacy pullID
  • Your legacy contactID
  • Your legacy itemID
  • Qty pulled (can assume one if this data is not available)

 

SUBSCRIPTIONS (required)

We currently rely on the diamond series code or DC series code for series and subscription tracking.

  • Diamond series code OR DC series code (may take some fiddling after import to clean everything up)
  • Diamond issue_sequence_number
  • legacy contactID

 

SPECIAL ORDERS (required)

So that CSA can tell you who gets an item when it arrives from your distributor.

  • Legacy contactID
  • Legacy ItemID
  • On order or received flag

 

ITEM DISTRIBUTORS

You may want to associate an item with specific distributors and their order codes.

  • Legacy itemID
  • Legacy distributor contactID
  • Distributor identifier