Exporting WooCommerce products by category is essential for better organization, targeted management, and efficient data handling. It allows store owners to focus on specific product groups—like seasonal items, sale products, or particular collections—without exporting the entire catalog. This makes tasks like bulk updates, inventory checks, or marketing analysis quicker and more precise, ultimately streamlining store operations and decision-making.
With the Product Import Export Plugin For WooCommerce, you can export products with their full category hierarchy and multiple associated categories. This allows you to generate CSV, XML, TSV, XLS, or XLSX files that include categories and subcategories for each product.
From the WooCommerce store, let us export the following products with categories.
Steps to Export
From the WordPress admin panel, navigate to the menu: WebToffee Import Export (Pro) > Export.
- In step 1, specify the post type as Product.
- In step 2, choose either Pre-saved template or Advanced export method as both of these facilitates data filtration during the export process.
- In step 3: Filter data, select the categories you want to export under Export specific product categories.
- Click on Step 4 to map the export and reorder the columns.
- Click on Step 5 to finish the export.
For a detailed export procedure, follow the steps in How to export products.
Sample view of exported file
On successful export, you can download the file.
In the exported file, ‘|’ is used to separate the multiple categories of a product. The ‘>’ symbol is used to add hierarchical structure of a product.
Download : Sample CSV.
the dude
October 22, 2024
is it possible to exclude a certain category?
Hema
November 22, 2024
Hi Dude,
Thanks for reaching out. Currently, the plugin doesn’t allow you to exclude categories. Instead, you can include all the categories you want and proceed with the export. This should export all the required categories and leave out the unnecessary ones.
fmimn
November 8, 2023
Hi there. I have many categories without any products, how can I export hierarchical category structures and multiple categories.
Vineetha
November 17, 2023
Hi fmimn,
Thanks for reaching out! In the specified case, each category will get exported in separate rows with the parent ID specified in each child category row.
James
August 29, 2022
Issues
Choosing to have your products in multiple categories and are hierarchical
Top|Middle|Bottom
Top>Middle>Bottom
The plugin can’t handle this; it would seem.
When you export, you get
Top > Middle|Top|Top> Middle > Bottom
So you can’t use this export, for example to change categories or even change pricing. What would it do when uploaded?
James
August 29, 2022
If you have product in for example three categories example – TopLevel and MidLevel and LowLevel it would look like this
rajib
December 19, 2019
Great plugin indeed. Very helpful for transferring Woo commerce products. Thanks
Mark
May 28, 2018
Hi,
Thank you for your high opinion.
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