How to Export Simple Products With Their Parent Product Relations in Magento 2
Let’s suppose, you need to export products from Magento 2. Your catalog contains a couple of simple products associated with a few parent products each. By default, it is quite hard to export these items and keep their parent relations in the exported data table. However, you can fix that with the help of the Improved Import & Export module. In the following article, we shed light on how to use the extension to export simple products from Magento 2 along with the information about their parent products. Follow our Developer’s Cookbook for more tips like this.
Magento 2 Parent Products
The parent product is the initial or primary version of the product, while child products are the parent product’s following goods with minor differences.
Magento 2 is associated with 3 product types that have child products. They are named configurable, bundled, and grouped.
Magento 2 Configurable Product is made up of several single items that come in different variations. Customers can select from a list of attribute choices for each variant. Merchants usually use this product type to offer clothing, such as a t-shirt in numerous colors and sizes.
Magento 2 Grouped Product consists of simple standalone products presented as a group that can be purchased together or separately, such as a knife set that consists of different knives.
Magento 2 Bundled Product, in turn, reminds of a grouped product but with much higher opportunities on the customer side. While grouped products are limited to purchase quantities of each individual item, bundled products let customers completely customize the bundle, choosing a variety of options and quantities for each item. It’s like an advanced grouped product that consists of configurable products with unlimited quantities. Thus, Magento 2 bundled products let customers customize the size, color, material, and other parameters per each item in the bundle.
Although all these product types have unique features, they are similar in terms of having child products. And while it is relatively easy to export configurable, bundled, and grouped products in Magento 2, things get complicated when you need to export their child products separately without losing parent relations.
The common method was to get parent product SKUs in Magento 2 programmatically and keep it related to child products manually. But it has a couple of downsides. Firstly, this method is time-consuming. Secondly, it requires some tech experience that not every merchant or store manager may have.
However, there is a better way to export simple products with their parent product relations in Magento 2. Let’s see.
How to Export Simple Products With Their Parent Product Relations
As we’ve already mentioned, you need the Improved Import & Export extension to exhort simple products from Magento 2 and keep their parent product relations.
You only need to run a simple product export process, described in this article: Magento 2 product export guide. If a simple product is a child of a few different products, parent products are separated by a comma in the parent_sku attribute column like in the following example:
As you can see, the table contains simple products that have only one parent product, multiple parent products, or no parent products.
That’s it. Exporting simple products with their parent product relations from Magento 2 has never been easier.
Improved Import & Export Features
Transferring parent product relations along with simple products is not the only advantage of Improved Import & Export since it revamps the standard import and export procedures entirely.
Above all else, it includes a schedule section, which is critical for regular data transfers. The scheduling area enables you to import data to your e-commerce website at any time. Note that this feature is only accessible via Adobe Commerce, while Magento 2 Open Source does not support scheduling.
Furthermore, the plugin has a plethora of mapping features. Third-party attributes can be matched to Magento 2 attributes, or new attributes and values can be created on the fly.
Improvements to import and export allow you to avoid time-consuming and unpleasant file transformations. Our plugin supports a wide range of file types, whereas Magento 2 only accepts CSV files. In their native format, CSV, XML, JSON, ODS, and XLSX files can be imported and exported.
Additionally, you can enjoy different file sources, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and FTP/SFTP, use direct file uploads, or rely on URL uploads. Even Google Sheets Magento 2 import and export processes are possible.
Keep in mind that API connections are also supported with the Improved Import & Export extension since it approaches import and export procedures between Magento 2 and other systems in a whole new way, basically connecting your e-commerce website directly to external services. For further information, click on the following links: