Product data entry for UK stores.

British retailers get product data in odd shapes. A wholesaler in Birmingham sends an Excel price list with trade prices ex-VAT. A Chinese supplier sends a PDF in American English. A brand sends a ZIP of images named IMG_4421. This page is about turning all of that into rows your store will accept, and what is specific to UK catalogues.

What you get

• One row per product or variant: title, handle, description, SKU, price, compare-at price, weight, vendor, type and tags.
• Variants built correctly: option sets aligned across parent and child rows.
• EANs and barcodes: checked for length and duplicates and placed in the barcode field.
• Images matched to rows: file names mapped to SKUs, alt text added.
• British spelling and vocabulary: applied to titles and descriptions.
• Weights in grams or kilograms: so postage rates are right.
• Channel-ready versions: Shopify CSV, Amazon.co.uk or eBay UK templates, as needed.
• An exceptions list: every field we could not fill, and why.

How it works

1. Send your source files. Spreadsheets, PDFs, photos or a feed link. Share store access through a staff or collaborator account only.
2. We inspect and quote. A fixed price in pounds, based on volume and how messy the sources are.
3. We build the rows. The AI engine extracts and structures; a person reviews each output against the source.
4. You approve a sample, then the batch. Drafts only.
5. Delivery. A CSV, or products loaded as drafts, with the exceptions list.

What is specific to UK data entry

Trade prices and retail prices

UK wholesale price lists are typically ex-VAT, while shoppers expect to see VAT-inclusive prices. We keep both: a cost price column and a retail price column, and we confirm the formula with you. A common error is applying VAT twice, or not at all, on a few hundred rows. We spot-check for it.

EANs, not UPCs

UK and European suppliers use 13-digit EANs. Amazon.co.uk, Google Shopping UK and most comparison sites rely on them. We check length and check digits, flag duplicates and leave blanks as questions. We do not issue barcodes; GS1 UK does.

UK sizing and vocabulary

A UK 12 dress is a US 8, and shoes differ again. When a supplier supplies US sizes we convert only if their size chart says how. We rewrite the obvious Americanisms in titles ("sneakers" to "trainers", "pants" to "trousers") because search terms follow them. We leave brand names alone.

Spelling and measurements

Colour, jewellery, aluminium, grey. Dimensions in centimetres and millimetres, weights in grams and kilograms, with imperial added only if your shoppers expect it, such as for pub tables or garden furniture.

Marketplaces

For Amazon.co.uk and eBay UK, condition, brand and EAN fields matter most. We structure data for the current templates in your seller account and flag fields we cannot fill from the source. OnBuy and Google Shopping UK have their own category trees, and we map to them if you ask.

Product marking and safety

Where your source carries safety warnings, age grading or marking information, such as for toys or electricals, we carry them across into descriptions or metafields. We do not check compliance.

Postcodes, delivery and stock notes

Supplier files often carry lead times, minimum order quantities and "ships from" notes that mean nothing to a shopper. We move them to internal fields or tags so they do not leak into product descriptions, and we keep any UK stock or dispatch wording consistent with your delivery pages.

Pricing

Product listing starts at £199 for up to 250 products, £359 for up to 500 and £559 for up to 1,000, with a custom quote above that. A fixed quote comes after we inspect your files. If the data also needs fixing, catalog cleanup starts at £159. See pricing and bulk product upload.

Is this a fit?

It suits UK retailers with hundreds or thousands of SKUs arriving from suppliers in different shapes, where the bottleneck is typing and checking, not decisions. It is also useful ahead of a season launch or a marketplace expansion.

If you have 40 products and one tidy supplier sheet, Shopify's own CSV import and our bulk upload guide will get you there. If you need photography or fresh copywriting, that is separate work.

Request a free sample of up to 10 products, then a fixed quote at get started.