Bulk import and export for candle data
Move your candle shelves and recipes in and out of Hi Ellie as spreadsheets — download a template, fill it in, and upload, or export a copy of what you've got.
If you're setting up a candle workspace with a lot to add at once — or you just want a copy of what's on your shelves — you can work in a spreadsheet instead of adding items one at a time. You'll find this under Settings, on the Import & Export page. For a tour of the shelves themselves, see Your candle pantry.
Where to find it
The Import & Export page groups its cards by craft. In a candle workspace you'll see a Candle section with a card for each type you can move:
| Card | What it moves |
|---|---|
| Waxes | Your soy, coconut, paraffin, parasoy, and gel waxes, with melt points, pour temperatures, and fragrance load bands. |
| Wicks | Your wick series and sizes, with brands and reorder thresholds. |
| Vessels | Your jars, tins, and tumblers, with inner diameter, volume, and material. |
| Fragrance Oils | Your scents, with scent families, flash points, and reorder thresholds. |
| Candle Recipes | Your candle recipes, together with their fragrance blend and steps. |
The Candle section only appears when your workspace has a candle craft. Every file is an XLSX spreadsheet.
Importing
Each card has an Import side with two steps:
- Download template so your columns line up.
- Upload XLSX to bring the filled-in file back in.
When the upload finishes, a result banner tells you how many rows were imported, updated, skipped, and how many had errors, so you can fix any bad rows and upload again.
Every template opens with one example row and a short note on each column. On the Waxes, Wicks, Vessels, and Fragrance Oils templates, name is the only required column — the rest are optional, so fill in what you know and leave the gaps for later.
Heads up: it's an XLSX file, not CSV. Bulk import is a Maker-plan feature — downloading the template and exporting stay free on every plan.
Recipes come as three sheets
The Candle Recipes template is a three-sheet workbook — Recipes, Fragrances, and Steps — so a recipe's blend and its instructions stay organized across tabs:
- Recipes holds one row per recipe: its name, wax_name, wax_weight_oz, vessel_name, fragrance_load_pct, pour and fragrance-add temperatures, and cure target.
- Fragrances lists each scent in a recipe's blend by recipe_name and fragrance_name, with its share of the blend.
- Steps holds the numbered instructions for each recipe.
Recipes point at your pantry by name — the wax_name, vessel_name, and fragrance names read from your shelves — so it helps to import your waxes, vessels, and fragrances first. For a deeper look at how a saved recipe reads, see Reading a candle recipe.
Exporting
Each card also has an Export side. Export all pulls that type back out of the active workspace as a spreadsheet, so you always have a copy. Exports use the same column layout as the templates, which means anything you export can be edited and re-imported.
Exporting is available to owners and editors. Downloading a template and exporting are free on every plan.
Update a lot at once
Because exports round-trip, the fastest way to fix many items is to export the type, edit the spreadsheet, and upload it back in. Rows that match an item you already have are updated rather than duplicated, so you can adjust prices, thresholds, or specs in bulk without redoing your shelf by hand.