Import for Affiliate Manager 5.x is finally done!

I had been going about writing the imports for Affiliate Manger 5.x rather piece meal. I had started an import module for the product data, had started on a module to import data from Affiliate Manager 4.x, and had completed a module to import affiliate data from Merchant’s affiliate feature when I finally came to my senses. I bundled all of that into a single module, with our new spiffy css based admin, and it’s finally ready to go!

It is bundled with Affiliate Manager 5.x (and you’ll need the latest version of that module to go along with the import module) and is capable of importing:

• affiliates from Affiliate Manager 4.x
• affiliates from Merchant’s 5.x affiliate feature
• category and product configuration data from flat files

At this point it does not import the payouts, orders, or hits data from Affiliate Manager 4.x (or Merchant’s affiliate feature) but if the demand is there I’ll likely update it later to import that to a separate sets of databases which can be viewed from inside of Affiliate Manager’s admin. You can view the new module’s documentation here

The only way to get the module right now is by downloading the latest version of Affiliate Manager 5.x (it’s included in the download zip). Once it’s installed, new versions can be obtained, when available, from the “check for upgrades” link in the module’s admin.

Now that’s done I’ll be focusing all of my non-tech support time on “Focus” our new search module. I’m looking forward to getting back into that groove as it’s been a great pleasure to work on (but then that’s generally true about all coding…and definitely NOT true about writing documentation).