UpdraftPlus vs WP All Import – Product Import for WooCommerce

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. 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“I’ve been doing eCommerce sites for almost a decade. The combination of WP All Import and WooCommerce is a game changer! I can now get clients into eCommerce sites that could never afford the time/energy or money it took to administrate a site. It has opened up a whole new client base for me.” Mike Tidmore -Founder, Successful Online Stores Whether you’re working with XML, CSV, Google Sheets, or Excel files, the WooCommerce add-on for WP All Import makes it easy to bulk import your products to WooCommerce in less than 10 minutes. The left side of the plugin looks just like WooCommerce, and the right side displays product details in a table from your XML/CSV/ Excel file. Drag & drop the data from your XML, CSV, or Excel into the WooCommerce fields to import it. The importer is so intuitive it is almost like manually adding a product in WooCommerce. WooCommerce CSV imports? WooCommerce XML imports? WooCommerce Excel Import? They are EASY with WP All Import. Here’s why you should use the WooCommerce add-on for WP All Import: Supports files in any format and structure. There are no requirements that the data in your file be organized in a certain way. WooCommerce CSV imports are easy, no matter the structure of your file. WooCommerce XML imports are flexible and work with any XML file. Supports files of practically unlimited size by automatically splitting them into chunks. Import 200Mb+ product catalogs with ease, even on shared hosting. WooCommerce Add-On Pro The Pro edition of WP All Import + the WooCommerce add-on is a paid upgrade that includes premium support and adds the following features: In-depth support for Variable products – example CSV and Excel files, ability to import variations from properly formatted XML, and much more. Import External/Affiliate products Import Grouped products Import files from a URL – Download and import WooCommerce data from Google Sheets and external websites, even if they are password protected with HTTP authentication. Cron Job/Recurring Imports – WP All Import Pro can periodically check a file for updates, and add, edit, delete, and update the stock status of the imported products accordingly. Execution of Custom PHP Functions on data, i.e. use something like [my_function({xpath/to/a/field[1]})] in your template, to pass the value of {xpath/to/a/field[1]} to my_function and use whatever it returns. Get access to our customer portal with documentation and tutorials, and e-mail technical support. Upgrade to the Pro edition of WP All Import + the WooCommerce add-on now. You need the WooCommerce add-on if you need to: Import XML to WooCommerce Import CSV/Excel to WooCommerce Import Google Sheets to WooCommerce Are frustrated with the limitations of the official WooThemes Product CSV Import Suite WooCommerce CSV Imports Of course, XML files can have complex structures, but for CSV files, you can easily edit them and change the column names. When importing CSV files, you should use UTF-8 encoding (which is very standard) if you are having any trouble with CSV imports containing special characters. But other than that, there are no special requirements. This importer is the best option for WooCommerce CSV import tasks – our importer is extremely flexible when doing CSV imports because you don’t need to edit your CSV files to import them to WooCommerce. WP All Import can import ANY CSV file to WooCommerce. You don’t need to layout your data in a specific way, and you don’t need your CSV to have specific column names. WP All Import’s drag & drop interface provides you with a visual way to map the columns in your CSV file to the appropriate fields in WooCommerce. WooCommerce Excel Import / Google Sheets Import Don’t want to convert your Excel or Google Sheets data to CSV? WP All Import also works as a Google Sheets and Excel importer for WooCommerce. Simply upload your Excel file as you would for CSV and WP All Import will automatically detect the columns in your file. For Google Sheets, use the ‘Download a file’ option and paste your sheet’s public URL to import data to WooCommerce. Related Plugins Export any WordPress data to XML/CSV Import any XML or CSV File to WordPress Export Products to CSV/XML for WooCommerce Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce WP All Import Add-on Export Orders to CSV/XML for WooCommerce Export WordPress Users to CSV/XML Related Tutorials How to Import Product Types Including Simple, Grouped, Virtual, Downloadable, Bookable, Subscriptions, and Product Bundles How to Sync WooCommerce Product Stock Levels How to Import Product Customers How to Import Product Image Galleries and Metadata How to Import Product Categories, Tags, and Other Taxonomies How to Schedule Product Imports How to Migrate WooCommerce Products Support You can submit the support form on our website or email us at [email protected]. While we try to assist users of our free version, please note that support is not guaranteed and will depend on our capacity. For premium support, purchase WP All Import Pro.