Magento Mass Importer or Magmi is a tool for Magento that assists in importing large amounts of data. Magento developers can vouch that importing large amount product details or codes has been a bugging bottleneck problem for Magento users. The importing process of Magento is slow. While importing large data, the importing process becomes time consuming and toilsome for the developer. Moreover, a person has to import data on a one-to-one basis to make things work as desired. The Magento Data Flow process is doing a lot of work when it is importing, but for some stores, like e-commerce, that needs thousands and thousands of data or SKUs, the onboard import tools proves nonfunctional.
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There are expensive solutions present in the market that will serve the purpose of curing the problem of data import in masses, but one tool that everyone can agree to be the best in the like is Magmi-Magento Mass Importer, and the best part is, the tool is free. Several tests conducted by several developers delivered positive results, even our developers at Rasbor, are very satisfied with it. Magmi has the capability to import as many as 50,000 SKUs at jet speed.
Magmi-How to Get It
Magmi was developed by developer Seb Bracquemont, who deserves accolades. The tool is not an extension for Magento. Rather, it is a collection of PHP and other files that can be installed anywhere virtually, as long as the file can be connected to the Magento database. Any person interested in downloading the file can find it from two different sources:
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Any ordinary person visiting the tool can easily understand that the home screen was designed by a developer and not a UI designer. No matter what the look is of the application it gets the work done and that is what counts the most. Magmi is a highly functional tool that has the capability of mass import, category creation and its activation and more. Whenever you are changing a setting in the tool ensure that you save it in accordance with the current profile or it will not be applied while doing a Magmi import.
The greatest treat that Magmi offers is its shear versatility of importing all kinds of products, including bundles and configurable products. Magmi also works fine when importing a CSV or SQL file. Magmi as a tool offers several functionalities. You can build scripts to run automatically, which can pull a file from remote server and update the products by using cron job. Ecommerce companies can benefit hugely from this. They no longer have to update inventory and price manually, all can be done in a moment.
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