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| Price for single import | Free | Average price is from $100 to $4000 as well as there’s a number of free ones (but in most cases they do not support the latest version of Magento) | Price depends on number of products. Up to 20 000 products - $149, up to 100 000 products - $249 and more than 100 000 products. | If you need to perform Magento fast product import for one time only, you can use Free trial version and import with no limitations and without any fee |
| Price for reimport | Free | Free | The same as the price of original import | Free |
| Price for regular import | Free | Free | You will be charged each time you will need to update products | $499 - price of Store Manager for Magento Primary License + Additional License |
| Price for automated import | Special skills required to set up cron job, so the price depends on your hosting service price or developer’s fee | Depends on the specific module you are using | Ask for estimated Price | Automated Product Import price $119 |
| Installation & configuration | Included in Magento, but the process of setting up is complicated | In most cases complicated installation as well as configuration | No installation, configuration presupposes file upload to make Magento database import, tech specialists do all work for you | Initial installation is as simple as any other desktop application installation. Import configuration is quite flexible, user friendly and offers you a number of hints |
| Support | Community support in the form of public forum users. Developers support is offered for additional fee | Depends upon the module and is offered for additional fee mainly | Free. In case person orders a service, the assistance is provided by tech engineers personally and can be done in real-time | Free. Assistance is offered on every step of the way free of charge |
| Documentation | Not available on official Magento site - check it yourself | Depends on product. For free products only general marketing articles are available | There’s no need for documentation and general information about service can be found in articles | Documentation is offered free of charge. There’s a number of useful articles with any specific solutions. |
| Server Resources Usage | Huge - number of server resources required | Huge - number of resources depending on the number of products | Minimum resources as product import as a service can be done locally and synchronization requires less resources | Minimum - import can be done locally with your local PC resources |
| File requirements | Has a lot of requirements including column names, data format, speicifc images folder, image path, etc. You can check here for all required columns | Usually supports Admin import/export format, thus has the same specific requirements. In case of specific data format in the file, additional addons to adjust it is required | No requirements. Modifications and file adjustments while Magento database import can be done by tech engineers, so no additional adjustments is required | No requirements at all. All columns can be merged, even if you have description in 2 files or want to upload images from external URLs from your supplier, price adjustments, etc... It is especially important in case you need to make this operation regularly |
| Functionality& Flexibility | No additional functionality | Either not possible or possible by means of additional plug-ins/fee | Customizations and additional work on the basis of clients’ requirements are charged separately | The tool has a lot of built-in features. It is very flexible and allows to do modifications on fly - e.g. merge 2 columns, replace categories, set visibility, sort order, etc. |
| MultiStore support | Available | Depending on the module | Available | Available. All stores can be updated simultaneously as well as separate stores import is available |
| Product types support | All product types | Some of them cannot handle downloadable nor bundled product types. For some of the products import additional plug-ins required | All types | All types |
| Images support | Image gallery with multiple images, but requires specific place for uploading images (media/...) | Local and remote. Sometimes additional addons required | Support of multiple images either local or remote ones | Support of multiple images for image gallery. Also no matter where images are stored - locally or at your supplier's site or on same server as shopping cart, they will be imported correctly |
| Import of attributes and Attribute sets | Need to be created manually | Attribute sets and their corresponding attributes need to be set up first | Can be done for additional fee | Attributes and attribute sets can be exported and imported |
| Custom Options import | Not supported | In most cases yes. Sometimes additional addon or module necessary | Can be imported | Custom Options can be easily exported and imported for products. Just SKU and custom options values are required |
| Do it for me option - “I want to save my time. Import it for me” | Not available | Not available | Available. The price depends on product quantity | Available. Import configuration can be set for additional fee. Once the service is provided you can use it further with same file with no additional payments |