You're reading from Mastering WooCommerce Build, customize, and launch a complete e-commerce website with WooCommerce from scratch

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835085288

Length 352 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

WooCommerce

Concepts

Ecommerce

Author (1):

Patrick Rauland

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Exploring the essentials of an ECommerce Store

2. Chapter 1: Installing WordPress and WooCommerce FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: All About Configuring Products

4. Chapter 3: Organizing Products

5. Chapter 4: Attracting Traffic with Search Engine Optimization

6. Part 2: Managing an Online Store

7. Chapter 5: Managing Sales Through WP Admin

8. Chapter 6: Syncing Product Data

9. Chapter 7: Configuring In-Store POS Solutions

10. Chapter 8: Using Fulfillment Software

11. Chapter 9: Speeding Up Your Store

12. Part 3: Customizing the Appearance and Functionality of Your Store

13. Chapter 10: Setting Up Your Theme

14. Chapter 11: Customizing the Product Page

15. Chapter 12: Building a Landing Page

16. Chapter 13: Creating Plugins for WooCommerce

17. Chapter 14: Next Steps with WooCommerce

18. Index

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Importing products via CSV

One of my first WooCommerce projects was for a large furniture company that had its own proprietary database, where it kept all of its product information. This database was where it added new products, updated prices, added photos, and placed products into categories.

The company wanted its website to reflect what was in the database. So, we had two options:

Integrate with WooCommerce so that every database change is mirrored on the website
Export products into a CSV file and import it into WooCommerce

Functionally speaking, both approaches achieve the same results. However, having to maintain integration with an unfamiliar proprietary database sounds like a lot of work and a potential headache. Conversely, exporting products into a CSV file is easy, and it’s equally easy to import that CSV into WooCommerce.

We’re now going to look at how you can import a CSV file into your WooCommerce store.