How to import products per store view in Magento 2?

One of the most powerful and salient Magento features is the ability to create multiple store views. Setting different views you, actually, offers visitors different ways to browse frontend products and the way your customers see it depending on their location. Undoubtedly, this is advantageous since you can set multi-lingual web shop and make it accessible for customers worldwide.

Whenever you use multi-shop functionality, run more than one store and have several views in each, you might consider the possibility to import Magento 2 products per store view and find it more than beneficial. Having several views, for example, English, Spanish and Italian, you respectively need to represent product details in English, Spanish and Italian.

Store Manager for Magento allows uploading individual product data for a specific view. When importing products from the file via Import Wizard, you can indicate what data will be imported to each store view (language).

Before starting the import process, you should consider the following points:

Magento 2 import per store view procedure is analogical to product import. It means you should go through the same steps, but some specific settings should be implemented.

How to Set Up Import Process

Once you launched the wizard and selected the file for import, look over product info you are going to upload and consider delimiters used to detach it. Specify this very values on the next step.

After Select Delimiter and Quote Character step, comes the window where view, details will be imported to, should be selected. The choice should be confirmed in special dialog window, coming up after desired shop view is selected. Read the message attentively and if you agree click YES.

File columns should be assigned to respective database fields properly. If you have in the file the same detail (for example, description) for different views, select the .csv column containing description (for example, in Korean, if you perform product import to Korean language view). Depending on product identifier, you have in the file, select the one from the drop-down.

Check data to be imported on preview step and designate suitable import options. Start data upload thereafter.

Fulfilling your view data, you can easily and swiftly populate necessary view with merchandise, build multilingual web-store and make products accessible for customers all over the world.