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Already track everything in a spreadsheet? Upload it and Selly reads it into your inventory — no retyping, and no mapping columns by hand.

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Doing it

1

Open the import window

Click your profile at the bottom of the sidebar, then Import.
2

Choose your file

Drag it in or click Browse File. .xlsx, .xls and .csv all work. You can also paste a Google Sheets link.
3

Check what it found

Selly reads your file and tells you how many items it found — “312 items found”. Nothing has been saved yet.
4

Click Import

Now it writes. The bar shows rows as they land, and it tells you what was added when it finishes.

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What your sheet needs

Two things: an item name, and a price. Everything else is a bonus. Selly works out which column is which from your headings, so Item, Product, Name and Shoe are all understood, as are Price, Cost, Total and Purchase Price. You don’t have to rename anything or reorder columns. If your sheet has a price and no total, Selly adds tax and shipping to it to get the total. If it has a total, that’s used as-is.

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Rows you’ve already sold

Add a sale price and Selly imports those as sold — the item, the sale, and the profit, so your dashboard and Performance figures include your history rather than starting from today. It also reads Sold On, Sale Date, Fees and Shipping Paid when you have them.
Profit is always recalculated from your numbers rather than taken from your profit column. If your sheet’s figure disagrees with ours, that usually means a column was read differently than you meant — worth a look.

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Undoing an import

Every import can be taken back in full. Straight after importing, click Undo on the result. Later on, go to Settings → Integrations → Imports, where every import is listed with its date and what it added. Undo removes the items and sales it created.
Undo leaves behind anything you’ve since sold. An item that’s sold has revenue attached to it, and removing it would leave that money pointing at nothing — so those stay, and Selly tells you how many were kept.

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If it can’t read your file

You’ll be told which column is missing — usually the item name or the price. Check the sheet has a header row. If your headings are unusual, use Map the columns yourself to pair them up by hand.
Imported items go straight into inventory without a purchase behind them, because there wasn’t one — you bought them before Selly. Cost, tax and shipping come from your own columns, so your figures still add up the same way.