To import data into WooCommerce product custom fields, start by creating a standard product import, which you can read about at How to Export and Import WooCommerce Products. Step 3 of the import process involves the Drag & Drop screen, where you map import data to the product fields. You can enter, select, or map product custom field data in the Custom Fields...

Using XML files to pass product data from a supplier to a WooCommerce store is not always comfortable for the humans involved. Unless you have a proper XML reader or the data file has been specifically structured for human readability, it’s a pain to interpret. So why use XML? Because it has some distinct advantages over simpler formats like CSV. For one, it...

Creating a WooCommerce product import template means specifying the following: The filter, if any, that should be applied to the import records. This allows you to dictate which products are imported or excluded. How to map the import data elements to the WooCommerce product fields. This represents most of the work involved in creating an import template. ...

Importing a WooCommerce product gallery really just means importing multiple images to WooCommerce products or product variations. There is nothing magical about it, but the devil is in the details. The details in this case involve three key factors: Dealing with the different potential sources of product gallery images; Importing multiple images per produc...

Importing WooCommerce Products with images can be challenging because the images may be stored in different types of locations. For example, they may already be in your Media Library or at least on your server. They may be hosted on another server or an FTP/SFTP site, or their location may be wrapped in <img> tags inside product descriptions or other product...

The need to automate WooCommerce product imports usually results from one of the following scenarios: Your suppliers send you regular updates of their product lists or catalogs. These updates can include changes to product descriptions, variations, prices, etc.You use drop-shipping arrangements for some of your products, and the drop-shippers provide you with regu...

We’re not going to lie to you: importing WooCommerce products can be challenging, especially if your product data is coming from 3rd-party suppliers with their own unique import files. In this article, we’ll look at some of these challenges and assess whether WP All Import is up to the job. Table of Contents Filtering Product Import DataMapping I...

Importing variable products into WooCommerce can be quite challenging, depending on the state of the data you’re importing. Most of this challenge revolves around handling product attribute and variation data. In these types of articles, we normally like to use a few different plugins for our demonstrations. However, in this article, we’re going to use...

If you receive your product imports via Excel files, but you’re accustomed to importing them manually, you can always save the Excel file to a CSV format, in which case you can use one of the plugins in our The 5 Best Plugins for WooCommerce Product Import from CSV article. However, if you’re trying to automate your Excel product imports or you just wa...

Are you looking for the best WooCommerce CSV product import plugins? CSV (Comma-Separated Values) files are by far the most popular way to pass data from product suppliers to WooCommerce store owners, mostly because they’re simple and easily read by humans: Value 1, Value 2, etc. The problem is that, sometimes, you get import files with multiple valu...