Hello, We are working on importing 5 million US businesses into geodirectory. We have pretty much everything sorted our with how the import will be handled, with the exception of franchises. Our data is provided by a top level data aggregator. Its highly organized and detailed. Part of our data includes all the US chains, such as Walmarts, McDonalds, Etc. Each one of our franchises is assigned a ChainID so we have great control over which businesses are normal and which are franchised. There does not seem to be a mechanism in place for importing these efficiently. As it stands, our data will identify a franchise with a chain ID such as Walmart being 2232 and they all share that number and call to a referenced table. It would be nice to be able to import listings in a similar manner, Can you explain how we could import such a large amount of franchises?
Ray Maksumov 8 years, 2 months ago.
