diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0d2765c..6cba4ad 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ Imports:
     AzureRMR (>= 2.0.0),
     AzureStor (>= 3.0.0),
     openssl,
-    httr
+    httr,
+    uuid
 Suggests:
     AzureKeyVault,
     testthat,
diff --git a/R/table_batch_request.R b/R/table_batch_request.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b77ac76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/table_batch_request.R
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+BatchOperation <- R6::R6Class("BatchOperation",
+
+public=list(
+    endpoint=NULL,
+    path=NULL,
+    options=NULL,
+    headers=NULL,
+    method=NULL,
+    body=NULL,
+
+    initialize=function(endpoint, path, options=list(), headers=list(), body=NULL,
+        metadata=c("none", "minimal", "full"),
+        http_verb=c("GET", "PUT", "POST", "PATCH", "DELETE", "HEAD"))
+    {
+        accept <- if(!is.null(metadata))
+        {
+            metadata <- match.arg(metadata)
+            switch(match.arg(metadata),
+                "none"="application/json;odata=nometadata",
+                "minimal"="application/json;odata=minimalmetadata",
+                "full"="application/json;odata=fullmetadata")
+        }
+        else NULL
+
+        self$endpoint <- endpoint
+        self$path <- path
+        self$options <- options
+        self$headers <- utils::modifyList(headers, list(Accept=accept, DataServiceVersion="3.0"))
+        self$method <- http_verb
+    },
+
+    serialize=function()
+    {
+        url <- httr::parse_url(self$endpoint$url)
+        url$path <- self$path
+        url$query <- self$options
+
+        preamble <- c(
+            "Content-Type: application/http",
+            "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary",
+            "",
+            paste0(names(self$headers), ": ", self$headers)
+        )
+
+        if(is.null(self$body))
+            preamble
+        else if(!is.character(self$body))
+            c(preamble, "", jsonlite::toJSON(self$body, auto_unbox=TRUE, null="null"))
+        else c(preamble, "", self$body)
+    }
+))
+
+
+BatchRequest <- R6::R6Class("BatchRequest",
+
+public=list(
+    endpoint=NULL,
+    changesets=list(),
+
+    initialize=function(endpoint, changesets)
+    {
+        self$endpoint <- endpoint
+        self$changesets <- changesets
+    },
+
+    send=function()
+    {
+        batch_bound <- paste0("batch_", uuid::UUIDgenerate())
+        changeset_bound <- paste0("req_", uuid::UUIDgenerate())
+        headers <- list(`Content-Type`=paste0("multipart/mixed; boundary=", batch_bound))
+        call_table_endpoint(endpoint, "$batch", headers=headers, body=body, encode="raw", http_verb="POST")
+    }
+))
+
+
+
+
+create_batch_operation <- function(endpoint, path, options=list(), headers=list(), body=NULL,
+    metadata=c("none", "minimal", "full"), http_verb=c("GET", "PUT", "POST", "PATCH", "DELETE", "HEAD"))
+{
+    BatchOperation$new(endpoint, path, options, headers, body, metadata, http_verb)
+}
+
+
+send_batch_request <- function(endpoint, operations, ...)
+{
+    # batch REST API only supports 1 changeset per batch, and is unlikely to change
+    batch_bound <- paste0("--batch_", uuid::UUIDgenerate())
+    changeset_bound <- paste0("--changeset_", uuid::UUIDgenerate())
+    headers <- list(`Content-Type`=paste0("multipart/mixed; boundary=", batch_bound))
+
+    batch_preamble <- c(
+        batch_bound,
+        paste0("Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=", changeset_bound)
+    )
+    batch_postscript <- c(
+        paste0(changeset_bound, "--"),
+        batch_bound
+    )
+    reqs <- lapply(requests, function(req) c(changeset_bound, req$serialize()))
+    body <- c(batch_preamble, unlist(reqs), batch_postscript)
+
+    invisible(call_table_endpoint(endpoint, "$batch", headers=headers, body=paste0(body, collapse="\n"), encode="raw",
+        http_verb="POST"))
+}
diff --git a/R/table_endpoint.R b/R/table_endpoint.R
index ba775b8..2ee3c5d 100644
--- a/R/table_endpoint.R
+++ b/R/table_endpoint.R
@@ -14,12 +14,16 @@ table_endpoint <- function(endpoint, key=NULL, token=NULL, sas=NULL,
 call_table_endpoint <- function(endpoint, path, options=list(), headers=list(), body=NULL, ...,
     metadata=c("none", "minimal", "full"))
 {
-    metadata <- match.arg(metadata)
-    accept <- switch(metadata,
-        "none"="application/json;odata=nometadata",
-        "minimal"="application/json;odata=minimalmetadata",
-        "full"="application/json;odata=fullmetadata")
-    headers <- utils::modifyList(headers, list(Accept=accept))
+    accept <- if(!is.null(metadata))
+    {
+        metadata <- match.arg(metadata)
+        switch(metadata,
+            "none"="application/json;odata=nometadata",
+            "minimal"="application/json;odata=minimalmetadata",
+            "full"="application/json;odata=fullmetadata")
+    }
+    else NULL
+    headers <- utils::modifyList(headers, list(Accept=accept, DataServiceVersion="3.0"))
 
     if(is.list(body))
     {
@@ -30,5 +34,3 @@ call_table_endpoint <- function(endpoint, path, options=list(), headers=list(),
     call_storage_endpoint(endpoint, path=path, options=options, body=body, headers=headers, ...)
 }
 
-
-
diff --git a/R/table_entity.R b/R/table_entity.R
index cb2fb1a..15c820a 100644
--- a/R/table_entity.R
+++ b/R/table_entity.R
@@ -59,3 +59,26 @@ get_table_entity <- function(table, partition_key, row_key, select=NULL)
     opts <- list(`$select`=paste0(select, collapse=","))
     call_table_endpoint(table$endpoint, path, options=opts)
 }
+
+
+import_table_entities <- function(table, data, partition_key=NULL, row_key=NULL)
+{
+    force(data)
+    if(is.character(data) && jsonlite::validate(data))
+        data <- jsonlite::fromJSON(data, simplifyDataFrame=TRUE)
+
+    if(!is.null(partition_key))
+        names(data)[names(data) == partition_key] <- "PartitionKey"
+    if(!is.null(row_key))
+        names(data)[names(data) == row_key] <- "RowKey"
+
+    if(!("PartitionKey" %in% names(data)) || !("RowKey" %in% names(data)))
+        stop("Data must contain columns named 'PartitionKey' and 'RowKey'", call.=FALSE)
+
+    path <- table$name
+    ops <- lapply(seq_len(nrow(data)), function(i)
+    {
+        create_batch_operation(table$endpoint, path, body=data[i, ], http_verb="POST")
+    })
+    ops
+}