=== WooCommerce - Product Importer ===
Contributors: visser
Donate link: http://www.visser.com.au/#donations
Tags: e-commerce, shop, cart, woocommerce, product importer, csv
Requires at least: 2.9.2
Tested up to: 4.7.5
Stable tag: 1.1
== Description ==
Import new Products into your WooCommerce store into simple formatted files (e.g. CSV, TXT, etc.).
See http://www.visser.com.au/woocommerce/plugins/product-importer/
* Import new Products
* Delete existing Products by SKU
* Update existing Products (**)
* Import Product images (**)
* Import from CSV file
* Supports external CRON commands (**)
Supported Product fields include:
* SKU
* Product Name
* Description
* Excerpt
* Price
* Sale Price
* Weight
* Length
* Width
* Height
* Category
* Tag
* Quantity
* Sort Order
* Product Status
* Comment Status
* Tax Status
Additional import features will be introduced in regular major Plugin updates, minor Plugin updates will address import issues and compatibility with new WooCommerce releases.
Features unlocked in the Pro upgrade of Product Importer include:
* Sale Price Dates From (**)
* Sale Price Dates To (**)
* Permalink (**)
* Image (**)
* Featured Image (**)
* Product Gallery (**)
* Post Date (**)
* Post Modified (**)
* Type (**)
* Visibility (**)
* Featured (**)
* Tax Status (**)
* Tax Class (**)
* Manage Stock (**)
* Stock Status (**)
* Allow Backorders (**)
* Sold Individually (**)
* Up-sells (**)
* Cross-sells (**)
* File Download (**)
* Download Limit (**)
* Product URL (**)
* Button Text (**)
* Purchase Note (**)
* Import All in One SEO Pack (AIOSEOP) (**)
* Import Advanced Google Product Feed (**)
* Import Ultimate SEO (**)
* Import WordPress SEO (**)
(**) Requries the Pro upgrade to enable additional store export functionality.
For more information visit: http://www.visser.com.au/woocommerce/
== Installation ==
1. Upload the folder 'woocommerce-product-importer' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
2. Activate 'WooCommerce - Product Importer' through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. You can now import Products by reading the below Usage section
== Usage ==
1. Open WooCommerce > Product Importer
2. Using the file upload field select your CSV-formatted Product Catalog
3. Set the matching import field beside each corresponding column in your uploaded CSV file, this is usually selected automatically
4. Click Import Products
5. Review the Import Log updated during the live import
6. Press Finish Import
7. Review any Products that were skipped during the import
8. You can now manage Products within WooCommerce
Done!
== Support ==
If you have any problems, questions or suggestions please raise a support topic on our dedicated WooCommerce support forum.
http://www.visser.com.au/woocommerce/forums/
== Disclaimer ==
It is not responsible for any harm or wrong doing this Plugin may cause. Users are fully responsible for their own use. This Plugin is to be used WITHOUT warranty.
Hola, estoy buscando un plugin que importe imágenes de los productos a mi tienda. En mi csv no se incluyen los nombres de las imágenes o las url de donde se encuentran.
Y quisiera saber si su producto puede enlazar las imágenes desde ftp o galería de WordPress mediante el SKU. El nombre de la imagen es el mismo que el sku. Es decir, hacer que coincidan mediante ese nombre.
Gracias
Hola Luisa, we do support importing images via Media Attachment ID, a URL or filepath if local (not via FTP unfortunately). You cannot match by Attachment title at this time but feel free to get in touch via Support as I’d be happy to look at that customisation with you as it will help others. Hope this helps 🙂
Hi,
I have exported the woocommerce orders but do not know how to import them .
There is a plugin that does this ?
Thanks.
Hi Christian, right now we don’t offer a solution for importing Orders into WooCommerce. We will announce a new Plugin to achieve this in the near future. In the interim please Google for a CSV or XML WooCommerce Order import Plugin as there are solutions that currently do exist.
Im having trouble importing multiple catagories with this.
My products belong to multiple different catagories, the tags work fine but cannot seam to get it to work with the catagories.
Hi Rich, open up a topic on the Product Importer Forums and we can look at this together. Please include version details as well as a sample of your import file so I can reproduce this with you.
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce-product-importer
hi does this product update the current products with the values of the file ?
Hi Jean-Philippe, yes you can merge your file changes against existing Products.
We are looking for a tool that will allow us to import Subscriptions from the woocommerce store. We are having a hard time importing them manually. I know your pro export tool will export subscriptions, but will this tool allow the import of them? I don’t see any mention of it. Thanks!
Hi Angel, importing Subscriptions is likely the hardest use case for any import solution as it requires that an Order, Subscription and User is linked correctly or generated at import time. We are exploring how we can support importing different export types but for now are limited to Products only and will announce new import types on our Blog, I recommend doing a database clone in the interim for migrating Subscriptions between WooCommerce stores.
My current import method crashes my server. I need a solution that imports images too. Do you offer a custom solution whereby you import my products and images for two of my websites. The images are located at a url which is the parent directory for images. Some of them are within individual folders. I have one site with product information uploaded (20,000+ products but the images are missing). The maker of the software can’t even fix the problem yet they advertise they import images all over the internet. Big BS. I need a solution that works, or step-by-step instructions as to how to do it myself. Let me know what you think. All the best, Jenny
Hi Jenny, try out our free Plugin and if that works without images then upgrade to the Pro Plugin and import with images. It’s the same import engine just with business features locked, you can use the manual importer or CRON engine to import your Products and we support URL sources as well as filepaths for images 🙂
Hi
I have a question about this plugin (or about it’s deluxe version):
I need to import\export category tree (only categories without products). I had successfully EXPORTed caterories list with your https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-exporter/ plugin, but I can’t find any possibility to IMPORT them back by this plugin. can it be done? and what is the correct way?
thx
Hi vasiliy, I’ve responded via your Facebook Post, please don’t open multiple comments for the same question 🙂
I am trying to use this to import/export from two wooCommerce sites but when I upload the csv file i got from your export tool from the other site it goes through 1127 items and then deletes them and says “an existing Product could not be found”, why would I want to import a product on the site if it already existed?!?
Is this plugin not intended for this use?
Hi jayman, our import Plugin has a few different importmethods including import new Products, merge Product changes and delete matching Products. Can you check that the import method set under Import Options on the screen after uploading as that’s likely set to Delete. If this persists let me know as I’ll see what’s going on 🙂
Yes, I see that and did that as only new products but it turned all my variations into product pages and now my 47 products are 1,130 products, a rather unwieldy mess. Is there a way to import it again as variation sets?
My question is why your one tool is called Shop Exporter and then the one to upload is only called Product Importer and not Shop Importer. I looked at your list for importing and neither the Free or Pro versions say anything about attributes or variations. They are an integral part of WooCommerce stores and the main reason I do not want to have to manually copy all this over or type it out again, being more then 1000+ list items.
http://grab.by/FgKq
Hi jayman, until WooCommerce came along there was no demand for importing anything other than Products. This is all new turf for WordPress and WooCommerce. We are working on a replacement for PID which will support more than just Products but it will take time and draws resources away from Premium Support and regular Plugin updates which is why it has been delayed.
Hi jayman, you’ll need to run the import again with the delete import mode to clear out those erroneous Profucts. I’ll follow up via Premium Support on how to import Variations and Attributes.
Ok, I moved them all to trash manually, now I see how useful the delete feature is.
If you sent anything to my email in the last two days please resend as my work server was down and emails lost.
Look forward to resolving this, thanks.
Hi jayman, best to follow this up via Premium Support, the Comments section is not intended for support (it gets out of hand really quickly). I’ll continue this with you there 🙂
Are you going to contact me or do I make a support ticket? Support is just for Premium plugins, we are talking about a free one here. If it is able to work with attributes and variations I think it would be good for everyone to know on a how-to page so we are not wasting your time with support tickets.
Hi jayman, Attribute support is a Pro only import feature, will work to get limited Variation support into the free release however. I’ll be working on both export and import free releases next week
It will be interesting to see how you add limited variations as at least in wooCommerce you can only add variations AFTER you have made attributes.
Hi, My client wants to be able to bulk import coupons and is using the iThemes Exchange plugin. Do you offer a solution to import coupons with this store?
Thanks.
Hi BaseMediaUK, we’ll be announcing Coupon import support with our new Store Importer Deluxe Plugin (that will replace Product Importer Deluxe with free upgrades for existing PID customers), the Exchange port will be released in the new year 🙂
That’s great news. Do you have any idea how soon into the new year it will support iThemes Exchange?
Hi BaseMediaUK, ASAP is the best I can give you, probably week 3-4 as I’m on vacation for a fortnight from early January. I’ll send you an early release just for Coupon import functionality as soon as it’s out of the oven
Hi, do you have an update on when this will work with iThemes Exchange to bulk import coupons?
Thanks.
Hi BaseMediaUK, import got put on the burner this quarter as interest has been 99% export. The general mood this month I’ve received is swinging back to import so starting next week I’ll be committing resources to SID (that means Coupon support) for Exchange and other Platforms.
Hello,
Look for a solution to export and import products from a woocommerce store to another site. Like your premium plugin so, i tested with the free versions of your plugins but apparently does not work well because of the special Portuguese characters (ç, é, è, ã, etc.).
Is there any way to properly encode the product?
The test site is available in http://www.goodstore.inweb.pt/?product_cat=casa-e-cozinha
Hi acmsoft, this is a limitation in our free importer at this time, we’ll announce a Plugin update shortly to resolve this, it is working as expected in our Pro Plugin Product Importer Deluxe 🙂
You warrant that the Product Importer Deluxe solves this problem?
The Product Importer Deluxe copy custom fields?
I read in a previous review that you offer the Deluxe Exporter plugin store to purchase Product Importer Deluxe confirm?
The Product Importer Deluxe works well with products variations?
What about images? The plugin copies the images?
Hi acmsoft, these questions are best raised as support questions. To answer:
– Yes images are supported
– No custom Product fields are not yet supported, this functionality is planned and will be introduced in a future Plugin update
– Yes we will credit you for the purchase of Store Exporter Deluxe if you have already purchased it after buying Product Importer Deluxe
– Our Variations supported is limited to our legacy Product Name formatting, in the next Plugin update we will introduce support for separate column Attributes for defining Variants
I am trying to get in touch regarding hiring you to help with a plugin I need for Exchange. Please contact me at info (at) dmlwebservices (dot) com. Thanks.
Hi dmlws, sure thing, we can’t e-mail out from our support/sales e-mail address but send me an e-mail at sales@visser.com.au and we can discuss this further.