Dominion Design: Monster Commerce DataPort

We currently manage four eCommerce sites that run on the MC platform. Recently, we acquired the DataPort software to facilitate the exporting of the product list from one online store so that they could be easily uploaded to Google Base.

The exporting went just fine but, upon upload to Google Base, all but a handful of products, of a total of 582, were rejected. A call to MC tech support provided a simple enough answer, although I had already figured it out...It turns out that , if you have variants enabled on any of your products, DataPort exports a price of "0", which means you'll need to manually edit the price in the xml, since Google Base won't accept a product with no price.

With a total of 582 products, only a handful didn't need manually edited, so what could have been a 15 minute job turned into a 2 day workout. After this everything went smoothly. Something to keep in mind if you're looking at DataPort for this feature.