The standard way products enter Manage Comics is through a distributor invoice during weekly check-in (see Check In Weekly Shipment). When you need to bring products in outside that flow — seeding a new shop with an existing catalog, importing a back-issue archive, migrating inventory from another system — there isn't a self-service bulk product CSV importer in the current UI. This article explains the realistic options.
Common Use Cases
Initial load for a new shop. Seeding Manage Comics with existing inventory before going live.
Back-issue imports. Bringing a quantity of older product into the system all at once.
Migration from another POS or inventory tool. Bringing in non-distributor inventory data.
What Actually Works
Customers and subscriptions can be imported on your own — see How to Import into Manage Comics and the Classic-to-Oryx migration article.
Products coming from a distributor go through the normal check-in with the distributor's invoice file.
RMH-side product imports (for Oryx shops with RMH) use the RMH Import Wizard inside Oryx — see Importing Items into RMH.
Importing products via CSV (back-issues, non-distributor seed catalogs, cross-POS migrations) Manage Comics supports the uploading of CSV formatted files with mixed codes. See Importing Products via CSV.
If You're Planning a Migration
Before you start preparing files, contact support via How to Get Help and describe what you're trying to import. They'll tell you the current expected format and whether the import is something you can run yourself or something they need to handle.
Preparing CSVs Safely
Whatever import path you end up on, CSV files opened carelessly in Excel can get their leading zeros stripped from UPCs, their ISBNs reformatted as scientific notation, or their special characters mangled. See How to Safely Open a CSV in Excel before editing any import file.
Related
How to Import into Manage Comics — customers and subscriptions.
Importing Items into RMH — RMH-specific bulk path.