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title: "Importing Costs Into the Product Catalog"
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updated: 2025-04-14T08:49:32Z
published: 2025-04-14T08:49:32Z
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# Importing Costs Into the Product Catalog

You can update/enter Product Catalog cost and list data by importing a tab-delimited file that contains that information. Cost and list data must be imported separately.

To import costs into the Product Catalog:

1. Enter the cost information you want to add to the Product Catalog into an Excel spreadsheet. (The format requires two columns: part number and cost.)
2. Save the spreadsheet as a tab-delimited text file.
3. In Quantify, click **Product Catalog**.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-1741270337663.png)The *Product Catalog* appears.
4. Click the **Import** dropdown and select **Overwrite Costs**.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/cc2436cc-83ce-4517-9f71-3db8c1cc5e1b.png)  
The *Overwrite Products Cost* dialog appears.
5. Click the **Import** button (![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/4819c2c7-2327-4ceb-8c88-95a9f4ce5a1d.png)).  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/2319d758-3947-4a0a-ae7a-8e36becda9bd.png)  
The *Overwrite Cost for Text* File dialog appears.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/ac9aa10b-97fd-4e9e-9e03-c659ca5537a2.png)
6. Locate and select the appropriate file and click **Open**.  
The *Overwrite Products Cost* dialog returns.
7. Click the appropriate **Overwrite Column** radio button: **List** or **Cost**. This determines whether Quantify updates the list or cost data.
8. Click **Import**.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/083829bf-77a2-4e4c-a79c-8ea397284cd6.png)  
Quantify adds the updated cost information to the Product Catalog for each part in the tab-delimited text file.