Do you want to export multiple products in your WooCommerce store? In this post, I want to show you step by step how to export products in WooCommerce. Its easy for all WooCommerce users to export products.

When you consider migrating your WooCommerce store to another hosting provider, the first thing that comes to mind is how will you export all the products?

When it comes to exporting products from your store, you need to consider the product variants, images, customer details, reviews, and blog articles related to the products.

WooCommerce continues to power many stores in the world today because it is packed with many convenient features, as you will quickly find out in this brief tutorial.

Table of Contents

1 How to Export Products In WooCommerce
2 What Is a CSV File?

How to Export Products In WooCommerce

By the end of this post, you should be able to export all the products from your WooCommerce store.

It is important to note that WooCommerce has a built-in option to achieve this. You can use a plugin, but the built-in method is very effective.

Before we proceed, you need to know what a CSV file is.

What Is a CSV File?

A Comma Separated Values file is a simple text file that contains a list of data. The files are used to exchange data between different applications.

They use the comma character to separate the data hence the terminology.

Once you have exported a CSV file, you can access it through a text editor of your choice. You can access it via Microsoft Excel or Notepad.

Let us see how you can export products in WooCommerce.

Steps to Export Products WooCommerce

Here are the steps you need to follow:

Log into your WordPress site and access the Dashboard as the admin user.
From the Dashboard menu, click on Products > All Products. This will display all the products you have in your store.
Click on Export, as shown below:
This will open the following page:
On this page, you can choose the columns, product types, and product categories you’d like to export. By clicking on any field, you’d get a drop-down, as shown:
If you want to export all the fields and data, irrespective of having data in it, just click on ‘Generate CSV’.
However, if you have data in only a few select fields, we recommend you only select those options that you want to be exported.
If you have installed a plugin to add additional information for your products via any meta plugin, you could check the ‘Export custom meta?’ field.
Once you have completed these steps, click on ‘Generate CSV’.

You will successfully export all the products in your WooCommerce store and you can use this data to import WooCommerce product in another store or as a backup of your store.

Conclusion

In this brief tutorial, you have learned how to export products by generating a CSV file. This is the simplest way to export products, but you can use a plugin to export your products.

Once the CSV file has been generated, you can import it to your new store.

This process is very easy, as WooCommerce provides you with built-in options that are user-friendly.

Joe

Joe is an experienced full-stack web developer with a decade of industry experience in the LAMP & MERN stacks, WordPress, WooCommerce, and JavaScript – (diverse portfolio). He has a passion for creating elegant and user-friendly solutions and thrives in collaborative environments. In his spare time, he enjoys exploring new tech trends, tinkering with new tools, and contributing to open-source projects. You can hire me here for your next project.

How to Export Products In WooCommerce

What Is a CSV File?

Steps to Export Products WooCommerce

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