Imported products from magento 1.7 site are not visible on magento 1.8 site

Question

I imported all products from magento 1.7 site to freshly installed 1.8 site. both are different sites. but products are same. after "run Profile" , i got message on screen "import successfull". Products are present in admin panel. but it's not visible on frontend.

Please give me your suggestions to make products visible on frontend.

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Admin Panel,

i) Goto Manage Products

ii) Then Select the products which are not displaying in the frontend

iii) Then Select the Update Attributes in the Action

iv) Then Add those products to correct websites.

Re-index the catalog products.

Hope this will help you.

Answer 2

Als look into the settings of the stock

You can eassily disable the stock option in the backoffice

Go to System => Configuration => Catalog => Stock

In the Options section if the first option is Yes put it to No and save it