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Magento to Shopify Product Migration: Complete 2025 Guide to Import & Export

- Magento 2, Shopify

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Magento to Shopify product migration is one of the most common challenges merchants face when replatforming their stores. Moving a catalog from Magento to Shopify isn’t just about exporting SKUs — it’s about preserving product details, categories, images, and pricing structures while ensuring the data aligns with Shopify’s format. A smooth migration process helps merchants avoid data loss, minimize downtime, and launch on Shopify with a store that’s ready to sell from day one.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to import Magento products to Shopify in 2025 and beyond, from preparing your catalog to using automated import and export tools. Whether you’re handling a few dozen items or migrating thousands of SKUs, the right workflow saves hours of manual work and eliminates costly mistakes. And if you’re planning a complete store transfer beyond products, make sure to read our full Magento to Shopify migration guide for a step-by-step overview.

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New in Shopware 6 Product Import: Control Topseller Products with the markAsTopseller Field

- Shopware

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Take full control of your Shopware 6 storefront with our latest update to the Improved Import, Export & Mass Actions app. We’re excited to introduce a powerful new feature — the markAsTopseller field — designed to make your product merchandising faster, smarter, and more automated than ever before.

With the new markAsTopseller field, you can now flag products as Topsellers directly in your import files, eliminating the need for manual tagging via the admin panel. Whether you’re launching a new collection, updating your seasonal catalog, or highlighting high-converting items, this feature helps you streamline your workflow and instantly boost product visibility across your storefront.

Perfect for merchants managing large inventories or fast-changing product lines, this update adds another layer of efficiency to your Shopware 6 product import process — all within the familiar interface of the Improved Import, Export & Mass Actions app.

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How to Import Products to Shopware 6 & Automatically Assign Them to Parent Categories: A Time-Saving Import Feature You Shouldn’t Miss

- Shopware

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Managing product categories during Shopware 6 import can be tedious, especially when you need to assign every single parent category manually. But what if there is a better way? The latest version of the Improved Import, Export & Mass Actions app lets you streamline this process. With the Auto-assign parent categories functionality, you can automate this process, making bulk imports faster, smarter, and error-free. Here’s everything you need to know about how to import products to Shopware 6 and automatically assign them to parent categories, why it matters, and how to start using it today. Continue Reading

Take Full Control over Product Visibility in Shopware 6: Introducing the ‘Replace Product Sales Channels’ Feature for Import

- Shopware

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Managing product visibility across multiple sales channels in Shopware 6 can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially in complex Shopware setups with dozens of channels and thousands of products. However, the Improved Import, Export & Mass Actions app eliminates the existing bottlenecks. With its new Replace Product Sales Channels feature, you can now define exactly where each product should appear and how visible it should be — all through a simple, flexible import process. In this guide, you’ll learn how this feature works, why it matters for the Shopware 6 product import, and how to use it effectively to save hours of manual configuration. Continue Reading

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.

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Magento 2 Configurable Product Import: Complete Guide with Sample CSV

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

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Importing a single product into Magento 2 is fairly straightforward using the built-in tools under System → Import. But when it comes to Magento 2 configurable product import, things get much more complex. Migrating configurable product data — especially when it includes multiple associated simple products and custom attributes — can quickly become overwhelming if you’re moving from an old Magento installation or another platform entirely.

The good news? With the right approach and correctly structured CSV files, importing configurable products into Magento 2 is not only possible but entirely manageable. In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to import configurable products in Magento 2, including how to prepare your data, avoid common pitfalls, and speed up the process using the Improved Import & Export extension.

We’ll also provide a downloadable Magento 2 configurable products sample CSV, explain key differences from importing via the default solution, and highlight how to fix issues when variations don’t appear as expected. Whether you’re dealing with a catalog of 10 or 10,000 items, this tutorial is your starting point. Continue Reading

How to Import Product Images to Magento 2 in Bulk Using CSV Files

- Fire development, Magento 2

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Looking to import product images in Magento 2 quickly and efficiently? In this guide, we explain how to import images into Magento 2 using CSV files — a crucial part of any bulk product upload process. Whether you’re launching a new store or updating thousands of items, manual image uploads just aren’t practical.

Fortunately, Magento 2 supports two default methods for bulk product image import: uploading from a local server or a remote server. Both are covered in the official documentation and can help streamline your workflow, but they come with limitations.

To overcome these constraints and make Magento 2 import product images even easier, we recommend using the Improved Import & Export extension. It offers more flexibility, automation, and full support for importing multiple product images per product via CSV.

Let’s explore how each image import method works, compare their capabilities, and show you how to make your Magento 2 image import process as seamless as possible. For more advanced techniques, check out our Magento 2 Developer’s Cookbook.

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How To Import Products From AliExpress To Shopify Step-by-Step Tutorial

- Our extensions, Shopify

How To Import Products From AliExpress To Shopify

Learning how to import products from AliExpress to Shopify can significantly expand your product catalog and boost your online store’s profitability. However, without a native integration between AliExpress and Shopify, many store owners feel overwhelmed, not knowing where to start. The good news? You have flexible options at your disposal — ranging from manually adding product details one by one, to automating the entire process with specialized third-party apps.

In this step-by-step guide, you’ll discover how to import products from AliExpress to Shopify using two distinct approaches. First, we’ll explore manual product uploads for those who prefer hands-on control and are willing to invest time leveraging tools built into the Shopify admin. Then, we’ll introduce you to a powerful automation solution designed to handle bulk imports, product mapping, and ongoing synchronization, letting you focus on growing your business instead of wrestling with repetitive tasks.

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to import products from AliExpress to Shopify with ease — no matter which method you choose. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to upgrade your workflow, these insights will help streamline your product sourcing strategy and unlock new opportunities for e-commerce success.
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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 Run Product Import on Daily Basis in Magento 2

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

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Welcome to our Magento 2 scheduled import guide. Below, we shed light on how to run Magento 2 import processes daily and automatically following a schedule. You can do that either in your admin interface or via CLI. While Magento 2 Open Source doesn’t let you automate data transfer processes and there is no way to use CLI to control imports and exports, you can enable the missing functionality with the help of third-party solutions. In the article below, we explain how to run scheduled imports in Magento 2 and use CLI to control them with the help of Improved Import & Export.

Also, we look for an alternative point of view on Magento StackExchange in the question by Massimo Camoni and the answer by Khoa TruongDinh. Since we leverage the advanced import functionality of the Improved Import & Export extension to address the issues mentioned in the discussion, you will also find a section that describes other possibilities the module provides.

So, how do we run product import in Magento 2 daily and automatically? And how do we use CLI in this process? The question has two answers since everything depends on your platform version. As we all know, the difference between Magento 2 Open Source and Adobe Commerce is huge, therefore, the same goals on both platforms can be achieved in a slightly different manner. Let’s see. Continue Reading