Using an FTP Cleint to upload image to channeladvisor.

You have 500mb of image hosting with your channeladvisor account and you can upload these on bulk using an FTP client. One is shall discuss today is ‘Smart FTP‘

Your can download Smart FTP Here

When you first log into this application you need to enter the channeladvisor FTP address:

Then your user name with your login prefix (found in settings>image hosting) and your normal account password, the press ‘enter’:

Under the new tab that will pop up you will have a blank bar. You will need to place a / in this bar ( the yellow folder will appear once you press enter):

You can now drag an image into the right hand pane and you will see your image pop in as a file. You can only upload files and not folders.

Make sure you images are re-sized to 400-600px wide and the size you want them. Now go to tool>images in channel management and click ‘bulk upload files using ftp’ and this will start your FTP scan. Your scan might be set to ever hour by default anyway.