bundle product import in magento

Question

I have installed magento 1.7.2 version, now my requirement is to import Bundle products but by default magento won't provide these feature.

So can anyone know that how can I import the bundle product from CSV file or if have any alternative solution then please advise.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

CSV Files contains:

Fields:

sku , _store , _attribute_set, _type, _category , _root_category , _product_websites , description , enable_googlecheckout , has_options , image , image_label , msrp_enabled name , bundle_options , bundle_selections , price , required_options , short_description , small_image , small_image_label , special_from_date , special_price , special_to_date , status , tax_class_id , thumbnail , thumbnail_label , updated_at , url_key , url_path

Values:

bb2 , Default , bundle , Furniture , Default , Category , base , This is 2 bundle product , 1 , 1 , no_selection , No , BB , RAM,radio,1,0 , ram:0:0.0000:1:1.0000:0 , 1 , Bundle Test Product 2 , no_selection , 01-10-13 0:00 , 30-10-13 0:00 , 1 , no_selection , 07-10-13 14:38 , bb2 , bb.html

Answer 1

You'll need to use the Magento Dataflow (System -> Import/Export -> Dataflow - Advanced Profiles). Create a new profile, and add in the following for your Profile Actions XML:

<action type="dataflow/convert_adapter_io" method="load">
    <var name="type">file</var>
    <var name="path">var/import</var>
    <var name="filename"><![CDATA[name_of_file.csv]]></var>
    <var name="format"><![CDATA[csv]]></var>
</action>

<action type="dataflow/convert_parser_csv" method="parse">
    <var name="delimiter"><![CDATA[,]]></var>
    <var name="enclose"><![CDATA["]]></var>
    <var name="fieldnames">true</var>
    <var name="store"><![CDATA[0]]></var>
    <var name="number_of_records">1</var>
    <var name="decimal_separator"><![CDATA[.]]></var>
    <var name="adapter">catalog/convert_adapter_productimport</var>
    <var name="method">parse</var>
</action>

Next you'll want to create a CSV file with the following fields: store, websites, attribute, type, sku, name, price, bundle_options, bundle_selections and any other fields you want to upload.

Now comes the tricky part: filling in those fields. The bundle options are in the following format: product1_name,selection_type,default_qty,position|product2_name,selection_type,default_qty,position. So it will look like product1,radio,1,0|product2,radio,1,0

Bundle_selections is a bit tougher, but looks like this:

product1_sku:0:0.0000:1:1.0000:0|product2_sku:0:0.0000:1:1.0000:

Edit:

Example CSV File

store,websites,attribute_set,type,category_ids,sku,name,price,short_description,description,value_offer,image,small_image,thumbnail,guarantee,weight,tax_class_id,po_box,status,visibility,grouped,bundle_options,bundle_selections,price_type,sku_type admin,"base",Default,bundle,7,product_sku,My Product Name,,"Really long description here","Another description bit here","value offer here",/image.png,/image.png,/image.png,"more text",19,None,no,Enabled,"Catalog, Search",,"Name1,radio,1,0|Name2,radio,1,0",Sku1:0:0.0000:1:1.0000:0|Sku2:0:0.0000:1:1.0000:,0,1

Answer 2

Have you tried using MAGMI? It supports bundles from recent time.

It is easy to import bundles with it. You can check official documentation in wiki.magmi.org

For example, the simplest syntax for importing bundle products:

 ....,bundle_skus,....
 ....,"CPU:sku001;CPU:sku002",....

And the advanced one

 ....,store,bundle_options,bundle_skus,....
 ....,en,"-*;CPU:Central Processing Unit:radio:1:0;RAM:Random Access Memory:SKU:1:1","CPU:sku001:1:0:1:0;CPU:sku002:1:0:0:1;RAM:sku1000;RAM:sku1001;RAM:sku1002",....

If you consider paid extensions there is a nice extension here, it's an ui wrap around MAGMI that also supports exporting product data in magmi format, not only import as plain magmi. It works with Google spreadsheets instead of CSV and exports data right into the csv columns with headers according to magmi syntax.