ERP Import Validation That Catches
Every Error Before It Counts
Every failed ERP import costs your team hours of investigation, delays go-live dates and erodes confidence in your data. ImportCheck validates your entire product catalog before it ever touches your ERP.
Compatible with Sage 100, Sage X3, Odoo, WooCommerce and any ERP that imports CSV or Excel catalogs. Results in under 30 seconds.
No credit card · No ERP access required · 14-day free trial
The ERP import problem nobody talks about
Your ERP is only as reliable as the data you import into it. Yet most teams validate catalog files manually — or not at all — before triggering the import.
When the import fails, the ERP gives you a cryptic error message pointing to one row. You fix it, re-import, fail again on a different row. Hours later, you're still not live.
When the import "succeeds" but silently skips bad rows, you end up with a partially updated catalog and no way to know which products are wrong.
Average time lost per failed import run
2–4 hours
Finding, fixing and re-importing manually
Rows silently skipped without error
Up to 30%
In permissive ERP importers
Time to validate with ImportCheck
< 30 seconds
For any file up to 100,000 rows
The real business impact of bad ERP imports
Data errors in an ERP import are never just a technical issue. They cascade into operational and financial problems that affect the entire business.
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Delayed product launches
A corrupted catalog import pushes back your go-live date. Every day of delay means lost revenue and a frustrated sales team.
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Wrong pricing in production
A price with a misplaced decimal or a zero value that bypasses validation goes live in your ERP and gets quoted to customers before anyone notices.
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Duplicated or overwritten records
Duplicate SKUs in the import file can overwrite existing product data in your ERP — including descriptions, images and supplier relationships built over months.
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Incorrect VAT on invoices
An invalid VAT rate imported into the ERP propagates to every invoice generated from that product line — creating compliance risk and costly corrections.
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Out-of-stock visibility errors
Non-numeric stock values imported as zero leave products appearing out of stock on your e-commerce front-end, causing lost orders.
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Audit and compliance exposure
Without a pre-import validation record, proving that your catalog data was clean at the time of import is impossible. ImportCheck provides a timestamped audit trail.
A validation-first ERP import workflow
Add one step before your ERP import — and eliminate the failure loop permanently.
Without ImportCheck
With ImportCheck
Upload
CSV or Excel catalog file. Up to 100K rows.
Validate
Every row checked against all ERP rules simultaneously.
Report
Download a structured Excel error report with fix suggestions.
Import
Import the corrected, validated file into your ERP.
Every ERP import error, caught before it reaches production
ImportCheck checks the data constraints that ERP catalog importers enforce — without requiring you to run a test import in a staging environment.
Structure
- Missing required column headers
- Misspelled or extra-spaced column names
- Rows with fewer columns than the header
- Empty files or header-only files
SKU / Reference
- Empty product references
- Duplicate SKUs within the file
- Leading or trailing whitespace in references
- Numeric SKUs that exceed field length
Price
- Zero or negative price values
- Non-numeric price cells (currency symbols, text)
- Comma used as decimal separator (format warning)
- Empty price column
VAT Rate
- Rates not in the authorised set (0, 2.1, 5.5, 10, 20%)
- VAT expressed as a decimal (0.20 instead of 20)
- Percentage symbol included in the cell value
- Empty VAT rate column
Stock
- Negative stock values
- Non-integer stock values (floats, text)
- Empty stock cells
- Stock expressed with a unit (e.g. "150 units")
Encoding & Format
- Undetectable character encoding
- Unquoted values containing the separator
- BOM characters in the middle of the file
- Mixed line endings within a single file
The ROI of ERP import validation
ImportCheck pays for itself the first time it prevents a failed import from derailing a project.
Cost of one failed import cycle
Cost with ImportCheck
One prevented incident per month saves
€761
net after the monthly plan cost — before accounting for go-live delays and compliance risk
ERP import validation for every major platform
ImportCheck validates against the column constraints used by the most common ERP catalog importers — no configuration required.
Sage 100
CSV (semicolon separator, latin-1)
Supported
Sage X3
CSV (semicolon separator)
Supported
Odoo 16 / 17
CSV (comma separator, UTF-8)
Supported
WooCommerce
CSV (comma separator)
Supported
Generic catalog
CSV or Excel
Supported
SAP Business One
Excel / CSV
Roadmap Q3 2026
ERP import validation — FAQ
Does ImportCheck connect to my ERP system?
No. ImportCheck never connects to your ERP, your database or your network. It validates the file itself — so you can use it in any environment without credentials, VPN or IT approval.
What file formats are supported for ERP import validation?
CSV (.csv) and Excel (.xlsx, .xls). The separator, encoding and sheet structure are detected automatically. No manual configuration is needed.
How is this different from testing an import in a staging ERP?
A staging ERP import only tells you about the first error encountered. ImportCheck scans every row simultaneously and returns the complete list of all errors in one report — before you ever run an import. It also requires no ERP environment to be set up or maintained.
Can I validate large catalog files — 10,000+ rows?
Yes. The Starter plan supports up to 10,000 rows per file. The Pro plan supports up to 100,000 rows per file with unlimited monthly analyses.
Can I integrate ERP import validation into our data pipeline?
Yes, on the Pro plan. The REST API lets you submit files, retrieve the error list as JSON and automate the validation step in your ETL pipeline, CI workflow or ERP migration tooling.
Does ImportCheck support multi-language catalog files?
The validation engine checks data types and value constraints — it does not validate the language of product names or descriptions. Accented characters in UTF-8, latin-1 and Windows-1252 are fully supported.
Add ERP import validation to your workflow today
Upload your first catalog file and get a complete error report before your next ERP import. No credit card, no ERP credentials, no setup.
Join operations teams and ERP project managers who validate every catalog before every import.
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