Moving a store from an Excel price list to Horoshop

Moving a store from an Excel price list to Horoshop is the switch from a file you send to clients to a website with a catalog, a cart and personal prices. The spreadsheet becomes the foundation: we clean it up, sort the products into sections and upload them to Horoshop together with prices, stock and attributes.

a price list without duplicates, merged cells and mixed units of measure;
product import from Excel into sections created manually in the admin panel;
wholesale prices by quantity, minimum order and order multiples;
customer groups with personal prices for wholesale clients;
photos linked to SKUs and attributes from separate columns;
catalog export back to Excel for accounting and partners.

Why an Excel price list is worth replacing with a website

If you are searching for how to make an online store from an Excel price list, your business is already running: clients get the file in a messenger or by e-mail, call and check stock. The file goes out of date quickly, every client has their own version, and orders are collected manually. A store on Horoshop replaces this with a catalog with current prices, search, filters and checkout.

Redirects are hardly needed for such a switch, because there are no old addresses. The main work is a clean catalog and a section structure based on buyers' search queries.

What moving an Excel price list to Horoshop includes

preparing the file: SKU, name, price, stock, unit of measure, section, brand;
removing duplicates, merged cells and mixed units;
product variants for sizes, colors and package sizes;
product import into Horoshop sections;
wholesale prices by quantity, minimum order and order multiples;
personal price lists for wholesale clients if needed;
photos by SKU and SEO templates for names and descriptions.

We create catalog sections manually in the Horoshop admin panel and upload products into them from the file. Export to Excel stays available, so accounting and partners keep working with spreadsheets.

We decide separately how to name the sections: buyers search by product type, brand and purpose, and the structure follows these queries. If the price list mixes several product groups, we split them into separate sections with logical names.

How we turn an Excel price list into a store

consultation and review of your file;
cleaning the spreadsheet and agreeing on the section structure;
creating sections and importing products;
photos, attributes, payment and delivery;
test orders, launch, sitemap in Search Console.

From you we need the current file, photos or links to them, and information about wholesale terms and delivery. We discuss how prices and stock will be updated after launch (manually, by file or via an integration) during the consultation. We fix the timeline in the contract after reviewing the file.

Cost and terms of the move

An online store on Horoshop starts from $500, and we calculate the preparation of a large price list with many columns and photos after a free consultation and a review of the file. The price is fixed in the contract, and the domain and admin panel remain yours. Details of the switch are on the page "Migration from other platforms", store development is covered in the section "Online store development", and promotion on the page "SEO promotion of online stores".

Questions and answers

Can I upload the Excel file itself to Horoshop?

Horoshop accepts product import from an Excel file. Before that, we bring the spreadsheet to the required format and create the sections manually in the admin panel.

Will Excel remain after the website launches?

Yes, the catalog can be exported to Excel for accounting, partners and manual edits.

What about wholesale clients?

Horoshop has wholesale prices by quantity, minimum order, order multiples and personal price lists for customer groups. Some features depend on the plan.

How many products can be uploaded?

The limit depends on the Horoshop plan. We discuss a plan that fits the size of your price list during the consultation.