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An important Review App feature is the ability to upload spreadsheet data to your website: listings, categories, and even input field choices. Yeah, we went a little nuts with the spreadsheet tools but they speed up the configuration process so much that we couldn’t resist.

Loading new listings via spreadsheet

On SeriousRunning.com we needed to transfer our ‘places to run’ data from an existing site into the Review App framework. Using a common spreadsheet format we simply exported the data from the old site, manipulated the columns in Excel, then loaded all 200+ listings into Review App. Total time to completion: less than 30 minutes.

SeriousRunning also uses data from Amazon.com’s affiliate program for running shoe listings and we were able to load a spreadsheet downloaded from the Amazon API into Review App as well. Sure beats typing hundreds of listings by hand

Editing Listings in Excel

Not only can you load new listings using the Review App spreadsheet tools but you can edit them as well. Just download your existing listings, make changes in Excel, then upload the file to Review App. Your changed listings will be updated and new listings will be added at the same time from the same file.

Loading/Editing Categories and Field Choices

Review App also makes it easy for you to quickly add or update categories and field choices using spreadsheet data. Import categories from your old website, create new categories using data you found online, or edit all your category names at once to make them more consistent - spreadsheet uploads make it simple! Field choices (the choices in your input forms’ drop down menus) work exactly the same way - simple. All our spreadsheet forms include simple step by step instructions: download the spreadsheet template, edit your data, upload to Review App. Done.

Some web software packages include spreadsheet data support as an ‘add-on’ (read: extra charge) but with Review App you get it all standard. It’s your data - upload and download it however you want!

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