It is very much essential to have an easy and flawless product import and export suit in a WooCommerce platform. WebToffee’s product import and export plugins let you export and import products in different manners irrespective of product types, count, etc.
Basically, the plugin allows you to import products in three different manners using a CSV/XML file.
- Locally from a computer
- via FTP
- Using URL where the file is residing
In this article, we will go through the steps on how we can import products using a URL.
Install and activate the product import and export plugin. On the plugin dashboard, the Product tab is divided into the following two sections:
- Import
- Export
Product Import Export-Menu
The Import section helps in importing products using the CSV/XML file. To start importing products, click on Import.
The Import section contains three methods for importing products as shown below:
Product Import Export-Import Products
In order to import products using a URL from where the file is residing navigate to the Method 3: Enter the URL of the file – In this method, you can provide the URL of the CSV file from where it will be downloaded for importing the products.
Import products via URL
Note: It is be noted that the URL should be a public URL for it to be accessed for files for importing.
For example, to import products residing at a location:
https://www.webtoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Product_WooCommerce_Sample_CSV.csv
Import products using URL (Click to expand)
Comments (3)
WHITE RUNTZ
July 3, 2020
we automatically upload the updated CSV file into the path URL, and this is the URL we have set in your plugin settings. The issue is that sometimes the plugin uses an “older” version of the CSV file. We think could be a cache issue, or something like this. Is that possible? And how can we fix it?
Alan
July 4, 2020
Hi,
Please share with us your importing CSV URL via support so that we can check it.
Riccardo
May 4, 2020
Hi,
We use the URL method to import products using your plugin. Sometimes (not always, and this is another interesting thing), seems that the plugin uses an “older” version of the file located in the path indicated by the URL provided. In short, we automatically upload the updated CSV file into the path URL, and this is the URL we have set in your plugin settings. The issue is that sometimes the plugin uses an “older” version of the CSV file. We think could be a cache issue, or something like this. Is that possible? And how can we fix it?
Thank you