How are you handling product imports from multiple suppliers?

Hey everyone,

We’re working on a small tool called Portaim and would love feedback from anyone in the Shopify ecosystem who works with supplier product data.

We kept running into a very specific issue: supplier CSV/XLSX files are often messy and inconsistent, and preparing them for Shopify import takes a lot of manual cleanup.

Portaim is meant to help with that workflow - it maps supplier columns automatically, highlights common Shopify data issues, and helps prepare cleaner product data before import.

We’re still very early and mainly trying to understand if this is a real pain point for others as well.

If you work with multiple suppliers or product imports:

  • How are you handling supplier files today?

  • Is this still mostly manual work or do you use tools/templates?

  • What part of the process is the most time-consuming or frustrating?

Happy to share more if useful, but mostly here to learn from people who actually deal with this day to day.

Preview: https://apps.shopify.com/portaim