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Documentation/Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce/Updating Existing Simple and Variable Products

Updating Existing Simple and Variable Products

Last updated on July 19, 2021

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Product Import Export Plugin For WooCommerce provides an effective mechanism to update your existing simple as well as variable products with all the details you want.
Updating product information is a very simple process – You just need to enable Update Existing Products option before importing CSV file. Further steps are similar to importing a CSV file.

Let us consider the following example.
In the screenshot below, you can see WooCommerce products page showing all products along with their product image, name, SKUs, stock information, prices, categories, tags and so on.

WooCommerce Products Page

For this demonstration, we will update the regular prices, categories and tags of products in the importing CSV file, as shown in the screenshot below:

Sample CSV

To get started with importing, move to Import Products settings. Tick the Update Existing Products option, and click Upload File and Import Products to start importing the CSV file.

Follow the usual steps involved in importing a CSV file. You can refer to this article for importing. Here, we don’t need to map the fields again, as the plugin will identify the previously mapped fields. Once the merge is successful, the following resultant screen appears as shown below:

Prod Update Successful

Move to the WooCommerce products page to see the reflected changes in the product prices, categories, and tags. It is as shown in the screenshot below :

WooCommerce Updated Products Page

Hence, these simple steps help you update products with our plugin.

To know more about other features of the plugin, read the documentation.



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Comments (3)

  1. Alejandro Merino

    Alejandro Merino

    August 27, 2020

    Is there a way just to import only one field images. Just a csv with image urls and a skus. We have made several changes to the products since they have been uploaded.

    Reply
    • Mark

      Mark

      August 28, 2020

      Choose only the SKU column and Images column in the mapping screen to only export that data.

      Reply
  2. Riccardo

    June 20, 2019

    Hi there,
    First of all, thank you for your plugin, it’s very powerful and useful! Anyway, unfortunately, I’m having an issue regarding CSV automatic import via URL (set under Settings). Well, the issue is the following: when the store is automatically updated via the CSV file at a specific import start time, some product variations are still present in the front-end of this product, even if these variations don’t exist in the CSV file and also even if I’ve checked “Delete existing products” that are not present in the CSV. Seems that this option only works for products and not for variations, even if variations are, more or less, products too. So, please let me know if I’m missing something, and also if the “Merge products if exist” option could do the correct job.

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