Manifold can read the price sheet your vendor sent and turn it into products, so you do not have to type them in. Find it under Inventory, Vendor Price Sheets.

It reads Excel (.xlsx), CSV, and PDF price sheets. A scanned PDF, meaning a photograph or a scan with no selectable text, is not supported yet; if your vendor has an Excel or CSV version, use that.

Nothing is added to your inventory until you say so, and any import can be undone afterwards.

**Step 1: upload the sheet**

Click Upload Price Sheet, choose the file, and pick the vendor it came from. Picking the vendor is worth doing: Manifold remembers how that vendor lays their sheet out, so the next one they send is already mapped for you. If the sheet covers one brand and has no brand column, type the brand as well.

Manifold asks for your password here, and again at the end before it writes anything. This is the screen that can change the price of hundreds of products at once, so it checks that it is really you.

**Step 2: confirm the columns**

Manifold works out which column is the part number, the barcode, the description and each price on its own, and shows you what it found. Check it and change anything that looks wrong. A product the import creates gets the sheet's part number as its SKU, saved in capitals with no spaces, the same rule as adding a product by hand (a sheet that prints SP 4.900 gives SP4.900). A later sheet from the same vendor still finds those products, spaces or not.

The second time a vendor sends you a sheet laid out the same way, this step recognises it. The heading changes to say so and everything below is already set the way you set it last time, including which cost and which price you chose. Read it and carry on. If the vendor ever changes their layout, Manifold notices and asks you properly again.

Underneath, you tell it which cost and which price your shop actually uses. This matters because almost every price sheet quotes more than one of each. A sheet might list a dealer price and a master carton price, or a MAP and an MSRP, and only you know which applies to you.

  • Cost to record: pick the column you actually pay. If the sheet prints a tariff surcharge in its own column, tick "Add the surcharge column to it" so your cost includes it. Leave that unticked if the cost column you chose already has the surcharge in it, or you will add it twice.
  • Retail price to set: MAP, MSRP, a point between the two, or your cost plus a markup. Rounding is optional and only ever rounds up.

If the sheet has a MAP column, that figure is also kept on each product as its own field, whichever of these you pick. So a shop that prices from MSRP still has the manufacturer's advertised price on record months later.

If the file holds several sections with different layouts, which is common in a multi-brand PDF, Manifold splits them and you map each one in turn.

**Step 3: match the sections to your categories**

Most price sheets are divided into sections with headings like AMPLIFIERS or COMPONENT SPEAKERS. This step asks which of your own categories each heading belongs to, so products the import creates are filed where you would have filed them.

Manifold fills most of it in for you and says how it decided. Headings it recognises are matched outright, anything it cannot place is sent to Manifold AI for a suggestion, and whatever is left is yours to answer. Every answer is a dropdown of your own categories, so nothing new is created behind your back. A heading you leave blank means those products arrive with no category.

Worth getting right before you import rather than after: a category you have given a minimum sell margin or a dealer margin hands those to every product created under it. See Setting Pricing Margins on a Category.

**Step 4: review and import**

You see every row before anything is saved. Check them, tick the ones you want, and click Import. Manifold asks for your password once more here, because this is the moment it writes to your inventory. See Reviewing and Correcting a Price Sheet Before You Import It for what the review screen is telling you.

**Changing your mind**

Changing the cost or price rules and going back through is free and instant. It re-reads the sheet with the new rules; it does not import anything twice.

**What it never touches**

Quantities and stock levels are never changed by a price sheet. It is a catalog, not a delivery. Receiving stock is still a purchase order.

**Stopping a sheet you do not want**

A sheet you have not imported yet can be thrown away at any point. Open it from Inventory, Vendor Price Sheets and click Stop and delete this sheet. It removes the file and every decision you made about it, and changes nothing in your inventory.

A sheet you have already imported cannot be deleted, because it is the only record of the prices it replaced. Undo the import first, then delete it.

**Permissions**

You need two permissions: "Create & edit products" and "View & edit costs". Owners have both by default.

Both, because a price sheet is a vendor cost list from end to end, not a product list that happens to include cost. Without them Vendor Price Sheets does not appear in your menu at all. An owner can grant them to anyone under Managers, Permissions.