Export WooCommerce Product Categories

Exporting WooCommerce product categories is essential for backup, migration, bulk updates, and multi-store management. It helps store owners efficiently transfer categories to a new website, restructure their product hierarchy, or integrate with external platforms. Export all the product categories of a WooCommerce store using the premium version of the Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce. The plugin helps you export and import product categories as a separate post type quickly and efficiently. To export the WooCommerce product categories:

1. Select the post type as Product Categories.
2. Select an export method.
3. Filter data.
4. Map and reorder export columns.
5. Use advanced options/ batch export and scheduling.

To export WooCommerce product categories, click on WebToffee Import/Export(Pro) > Export.

As a first step, you need to choose the post type as Product Categories.

Choose from the below options to continue with your export:

• Quick export : exports the basic/standard fields.
• Based on a pre-saved template : exports data as per the specifications(filters, selective column, mapping etc) from the previously saved file.
  This export method will be visible only if you satisfy both of these:

  • exported data using the Advanced export method in any of your previous exports.
  • saved the selections as a template for future use.
  
  Note: The template will be listed in the drop down only if you have saved it in previous exports, if you go through the Advanced export, at Step 5 you will get an option to save the template. Once you save that, next time when you want to export a pre-saved template, it will be populated within the drop down.

Advanced export: Takes you through a detailed process of filtering/column selection/advanced options that may be required for your export.

Note: You can also save this file as a template for future use.

Filter the data based on:

1. Sort Columns: Select the column based on which you want to sort the export data.
2. Sort: Sorts the selected sort column in ascending or descending order as specified.

• Click on Step 4 to proceed further.

You can edit all the default export column names in this section in the export mapping screen. The preferred names and choices last saved can be viewed by choosing a pre-saved template. You can also move the columns to reorder the arrangement.

On reaching Step 5, the following window will appear, from where you can:

• Specify the Export file name.
• Choose the Export file format between CSV and XML.
• Select the required delimiter among Comma, Semicolon, Tab, Spaces, and others.
• Download the file into Local or FTP.

To enable FTP export, select FTP for the option Download the file into.

• Select an FTP profile
• Use the default export path or specify a new one as required.
• Click on Export/Schedule and select the Schedule button.

On expanding the Advanced options, you can :

• Include BOM in export file by selecting the Enable option. This will help the applications like Microsoft Excel to read your export file, even if it contains non-English characters.
• Export in batches based on the number specified. This value specifies the number of records the server will process for every iteration within the configured timeout interval.
  
  NOTE: If the export fails due to timeout, you can lower the batch count and try again.
• Custom PHP code: Here, the export data will be passed through the PHP function defined. Click on Save functions to save the code.

• Save the template file for future export as shown below(if needed).

• Click on Export to finish.