My wholesaler offers a datafeed in CSV fomat with a list of current available products every day. They do not offer anything in the way of tech support, but they told me I could save this file to Excel and then change any of the information to reflect my own pricing, etc.

I have the following questions:

I have successfully saved todays datafeed to Excel, but how would I get this info into my website?

I want to change some of the info to reflect my own descriptions and pricing. How would I do that? This should be able to be changed one time and then every day thereafter, when I download the new datafeed of available products, I am supposedly able to get it to show the changes I made that one time. How?

I've tried searches for 'datafeed' and everything seems to point to affiliate related datafeeds and or blogs. I am not an affiliate, nor am I doing a blog. I will be opening an ecommerce store with thousands of products in the beauty field.

Should this be posted to a different folder?

Thanks!

You need a means to parse the CSV and import it into whatever database your site uses, leaving out the superfluous data or only importing the data you actually require.

How would I do that??

absolutely no idea. because that would entirely depend on;

What database you use and the structure of it;
What the CSV field layout is;
What server side code is used;
What the markup is from wholesaler to retail (your prices);

plus a host of other things quite probably

Originally Posted by silvergirl

How would I do that??

By writing code, putting on your computer programmer hat, or hiring somebody who wears one.