BudgetBargains
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Importing reviews in bulk (setting: up to 20) takes about 5 minutes per product ! Importing single product in product editing window takes 20-30 seconds. Not significant difference if the images are downloaded to server or not. This issue is "as it is now" i heard from support. They have promised to fix it.
I really hope they get into it because if i have 1000 product shop its useless feature as it is now. (Importing time would be 83 hours!)
Also i hope they would make more options to bulk import. To import by category. Even if they fasten the process, its still 30sec per product and
importing 1000-product shop is 8 hours. Importing 3000-product shop would be 24 hours. This bulk import is important to refresh the reviews at least once a week because it will raise eyebrows if reviews are too old.
So my hopes for this Import Reviews - function is:
1) make it work. 5min per product is useless.
2) add options to import by category because large shops need to import piece by piece (even when time would be 30sec)
3) make option to pause or cancel the process. as it takes for hours you may need to pause it from time to time and need option to resume later.
4) to avoid the need to download the review photos to your server, fix how they show in your page. now, if images are not downloaded
you put mouse over the image and it points to alicdn.com which is not acceptable. Hide the URL indication somehow. Like its hidden in product images.
Of course even then the image source can be seen when "open image in new window" or "copy image address" but this is not what most would do.
5) this would solve a lot: instead of needing to always refresh the whole reviews would be nice to have "refresh timestamp" -feature. Example: Freshest timestamp in review is time when you press the "refresh" and then they go back setting the next stamp from x to y randomly (or if too hard to code, then fixed time distance, for example 9 hours 13 minutes 22 seconds). This setting would be included in control panel.
Summary: If you cannot in any way fasten the process to make it work, then add at least 5) option.
I really hope they get into it because if i have 1000 product shop its useless feature as it is now. (Importing time would be 83 hours!)
Also i hope they would make more options to bulk import. To import by category. Even if they fasten the process, its still 30sec per product and
importing 1000-product shop is 8 hours. Importing 3000-product shop would be 24 hours. This bulk import is important to refresh the reviews at least once a week because it will raise eyebrows if reviews are too old.
So my hopes for this Import Reviews - function is:
1) make it work. 5min per product is useless.
2) add options to import by category because large shops need to import piece by piece (even when time would be 30sec)
3) make option to pause or cancel the process. as it takes for hours you may need to pause it from time to time and need option to resume later.
4) to avoid the need to download the review photos to your server, fix how they show in your page. now, if images are not downloaded
you put mouse over the image and it points to alicdn.com which is not acceptable. Hide the URL indication somehow. Like its hidden in product images.
Of course even then the image source can be seen when "open image in new window" or "copy image address" but this is not what most would do.
5) this would solve a lot: instead of needing to always refresh the whole reviews would be nice to have "refresh timestamp" -feature. Example: Freshest timestamp in review is time when you press the "refresh" and then they go back setting the next stamp from x to y randomly (or if too hard to code, then fixed time distance, for example 9 hours 13 minutes 22 seconds). This setting would be included in control panel.
Summary: If you cannot in any way fasten the process to make it work, then add at least 5) option.