Field-tested guides on exporting catalogues, migrating between WooCommerce and Shopify, bulk importing products and building feeds that keep themselves up to date.
What transfers cleanly, what silently breaks, and how to verify a WooCommerce to Shopify product migration before you point DNS at the new store.
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Suspension usually comes with little warning and often takes admin access with it. The order of operations that saves your catalogue while you can still reach it.
A one-off import is a snapshot of something that keeps moving. What breaks when your catalogue drifts from your supplier's, and the four ways to stop it.
Five ways to get a WooCommerce catalogue out as a spreadsheet, including the one that works when you do not have admin access to the store.
Every field in Shopify's product import file, what happens when you leave one blank, and the Handle rule that decides how rows group into products.
Nearly every Shopify storefront publishes its catalogue as JSON at a predictable URL. What it gives you, what it withholds, and how pagination really behaves.
Moving off Shopify is easier than most expect, because WooCommerce is more permissive. The real traps are images, variant attributes and the apps you relied on.
CSV import is the default answer and a bad one for catalogues that change. How the file route works, where it breaks, and what a feed-based import does instead.
What each WooCommerce CSV column expects, how variable products wire to their variations, and the delimiter rules that fail silently.
Failed imports are almost never random. Each symptom maps to a specific cause, and most are encoding, memory or SKU problems in disguise.
Reading public data is generally lawful. Republishing someone's copyrighted description is a separate question. Those two get conflated constantly.
Merchant Center rejects feeds for boring, fixable reasons. The required attributes, the identifier rules behind most disapprovals, and why a self-refreshing feed wins.
The slow part of launching a store was never the design, it was typing in products. The workflow that turns a supplier catalogue into a stocked storefront in one sitting.
Not every platform gives you a usable export, and some give you nothing. The route that always works reads what the storefront already publishes.
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