Importing from WooCommerce

What it brings across

The importer reads your old shop's public product data: simple and variable products, variants, SKUs, prices and sale prices, stock, categories, makers, photos and variant photos. It doesn't need a key.

It can't bring orders or customers. WooCommerce doesn't share those publicly.

Before you start

• Your new shop must already exist. See Installing Vexon Commerce.
• Every price in the old shop must be in your new shop's base currency, or the importer stops.
• Storage must be set up, unless you skip photos with --skip-images.

Import

1. 1

   Do a dry run

   It only shows what it would do. Use your shop's slug and your old shop's address.

   Terminal

   $ docker exec -it vexon-commerce npm run import:woocommerce -- \    --site your-shop --source https://old-shop.example.com

2. 2

   Check the options

   Some defaults were made for one shop. Check these before you write anything:

   OptionWhat it doesExample

   --maker-parent

   The old category whose sub-categories become makers. Set it to yours.

   --maker-parent brands

   --geo-ip

   Pretends to be a visitor from this IP, for shops whose prices change by country. Use none if yours don't.

   --geo-ip none

   --unmanaged-stock

   Stock to give in-stock items the old shop doesn't count. Defaults to 1.

   --unmanaged-stock 0

   --skip-images

   Leaves photos behind.

   --skip-images

   --save

   Saves what it read, so you can import later with --from instead of --source.

   --save old-shop.json
3. 3

   Import for real

   Add --apply. Inside the container you also need --i-know, which confirms you mean to write to a database that isn't on this computer.

   Terminal

   $ docker exec -it vexon-commerce npm run import:woocommerce -- \    --site your-shop --source https://old-shop.example.com \    --maker-parent brands --apply --i-know

4. 4

   Rebuild search

   Terminal

   $ docker exec vexon-commerce npm run search:reindex

Running it again

It's safe to run again. Products are matched to the ones it brought across before, and only changes are written. Stock isn't overwritten once the shop is tracking it. Products deleted from the old shop are listed but left as they are.