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Full Magento 2 Import & Export Guide (2025): Master Product, Customer, Order & Other Data Transfers

- E-Commerce, Magento 2, Uncategorized

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Magento 2 import and export processes are essential for managing your store’s data, but they can be surprisingly complex. From handling products and customers to orders and custom entities, these operations require technical knowledge, precise formatting, and sometimes third-party tools. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive resource.

Instead of searching through dozens of separate blog posts, you’ll find everything you need right here — neatly grouped and organized. This Magento 2 import/export guide brings together our most useful tutorials, walkthroughs, and troubleshooting tips. Whether you’re looking for step-by-step Magento 2 product import instructions, exploring Magento import from external systems like Google Sheets, or diving into API-powered Magento export workflows — this list has you covered.

We cover both the default Magento 2 import/export features and powerful alternatives like the Improved Import & Export extension. You’ll learn how to automate routine data transfers, work with custom attributes, and unlock features missing in the Open Source edition.

Start below to master every aspect of Magento 2 import and export — from the basics to advanced automation strategies. Continue Reading

The Ultimate BigCommerce Import Guide

- BigCommerce, E-Commerce

BigCommerce Import: products, customers, orders

The management of your store’s products, inventories, clients, and other entities can be streamlined with the help of import and export processes. By default, BigCommerce offers tools for moving data to and from your e-commerce website. You can use BigCommerce import to update customers and product catalogs and BigCommerce export to apply bulk adjustments to them. In the following article, we focus on the import side of these processes. We briefly explore the default capabilities and then proceed to a more in-depth analysis of each particular opportunity associated with the BigCommerce import. 

Although the platform’s only file format for importing data is CSV, it still supports a few more import entities. Thus, BigCommerce product import and BigCommerce customer import are at your disposal. Also, you can transfer related entities, such as product options and images, as well as customer passwords to your e-commerce website. Below, we’ll discuss the many data types that can be imported, including those not supported by default, such as BigCommerce order import, BigCommerce category import, and BigCommerce customer review import. You will learn how to transfer products, product options, product images, customers, customer passwords, 301 redirects, orders, categories, and customer reviews to your website. For additional information on the topic, go to the corresponding BigCommerce Export Guide. Continue Reading

How To Import/Export Categories to Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Fire development, Magento 2

Magento 2 Development

Below, you will find a brief description of how to import/export categories between two Magento 2 websites. Unfortunately, this functionality is not available by default. Magento 2 leaves you alone with a huge category tree. You either need to recreate it manually or rely on third parties. So, welcome to our Magento 2 categories import tutorial. We know for sure how to import and export Magento 2 categories most efficiently.

The Magento StackExchange discussion inspired this post: question by Rafael Corrêa Gomes; answer by KAndy. However, it is only a partial overview of the Magento 2 category import and export. A full-featured guide on how to import and export categories, with all attributes explained can be found here: Magento 2 Categories Import Guide. Continue Reading

How to Generate Unique Product & Category URLs if They Are Duplicated During Magento 2 Import

- Magento 2, Our extensions

If some of the imported products or categories are duplicated it may negatively affect your administrative routine, SEO, and customer experience. However, there is a possibility to address these issues even before they impact anyone. Meet the Improved Import & Export Magento 2 extension. We’ve already explained how to use the module to create SEO-friendly product URL patterns. However, it also includes another handy instrument that addresses the duplicate issue. The extension can generate unique URLs if it finds out that the imported products or categories have duplicated addresses. Go to our Magento 2 Developer’s Cookbook for more tips. Continue Reading

How to import & export Magento 2 categories with custom separators

- Magento 2, Our extensions

Magento 2 Development; Magento 2 tutorial

Since category names on an e-commerce website may contain commas, the export process may recognize them as separators, creating new categories in your export file. The same issue impacts your category tree on import: since the comma is considered a delimiter, a long category name can be split into several new categories. Below, we explain how to import and export Magento 2 categories with custom separators to avoid these issues. As usual, you will need the Improved Import & Export extension for Magento 2 since the platform’s default data transfer instruments do not support category import or export, nor it lets you use custom separators for category names when you import and export products.   Continue Reading