Image files in product imports

To upload your images to ShopWired's image hosting service:

1. Gather all your images into a single folder on your device's hard drive
   • Ensure that all images are in a single folder and that the folder doesn't contain other folders with images
2. Compress or zip the folder
3. Navigate to http://image-import.shopwired.co.uk and select the zipped folder from your device
4. Enter your email address (for notification when the upload has been processed) - this is optional but recommended for larger imports (over 50MB)
5. Select upload files
6. Keep the browser window open whilst the zipped file uploads

The upload processes in 3 stages:

1. Your file uploads from your device to the ShopWired server
2. The ShopWired server unzips the file
3. The ShopWired server processes the images

Once the upload is complete the website will display a unique upload ID for the file, for example 1016:

Make a note of this ID, you'll use this in the next step.

Once you've uploaded your images to the ShopWired image hosting service, you'll use the unique upload ID to formulate the URLs to use in your category or product import.

• The URLs of images on the ShopWired server will follow this formula http://s3.shopwired.co.uk/{{ ID }}/{{ filename.jpg }}
• {{ ID }} is the unique ID of the upload
• {{ filename.jpg }} is the filename and file extension
• Your own images will be accessible at URLs that follow this format, for example if your upload ID is 1016 and one of the file names is white_nike_trainers.png the URL for the image file will be http://s3.shopwired.co.uk/1016/white_nike_trainers.png

If you haven't already input the file names for images into your import file, you can write in the URL for each image according to the specification above.

If you have already input file names into your spreadsheet, you can use a concatenate formula within your spreadsheet editing software to add in the beginning of the URL, for example ="http://s3.shopwired.co.uk/{{ ID }}/"&A1.

You can ask AI to help you.

URLs cannot contain special characters (for example: ø, ü, é). If your URL does contain special characters, you will first need to change that character to the URL code for it.

To obtain the URL code for special characters you can use a tool such as Graphemica. On their website, select the special character you need to use and under Code copy the URL escape code. For each instance of the special character in your URL, you will need to replace it with the URL escape code.

Alternatively, you can ask AI to help you.