Adding lots of items and custom fields

[typeleven]

I?m very new to this and I?ve looked around and can?t find the answer to a few questions. So if someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

 

? I want to enter in about 1500 items is there an efficient way to do this? Can I import a .csv?

? I want to assign a sales person to each category of products and have a link to that person?s email available to the users.

[Guest]

for the first try the easypopulate contribution

for the 2nd try the categories description contribution and then within the html categories description text you could place your mailto: stuff. For the 2nd item alternatively you could add another sql table with sales email entries and configure it separately, just more work but its more elegant and easier to maintain.