We are used to offering customers a table rate shipping option, spend 6.95 if order is under $19, 20 to 30, 5.95, 30-50 4.95 and over 50 free.  Is there any sort of way of doing this with abantecart?

Great cart!

Question on the IMPORTING of data (already thoroughly reviewed Abantecart docs on data import).

I have been doing this since the internet started and tested and worked on virtually every cart out there. (Abantecart is the best as we see it now, in speed and appearance...)

Imported using csv, txt, xml and api.   This tool has me a bit confused.  Am I understanding that we need to import products, then do another import of manufacturers, then a separate import of categories etc?  Having come from an heavily modified an customized easypopulate metric where we import a single spreadsheet, break it up into batches or manage server memory to avoid timeouts, this is giving me a bit of discomfort. 

I have exported a sample product as instructed, but its assigned a category id already.  How does one get category NAMES to import, we have hundreds of cats and subcats and 250 manufacturers?

There has to be an easier way to do importing for the experienced people (even SQL statements)?  But I am not seeing that anywhere in the forums and have gone through about 40 posts dating back to when you started.  I fear for the new ecommerce store owner trying to do an import...

Any help would be appreciated.