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Overview of WooCommerce Product CSV Import Suite
WooCommerce Product CSV Import Suite is WooCommerce's official premium product importer. It handles product data, variations, images, and custom meta via CSV, and integrates directly with the WooCommerce admin interface. It is a reliable baseline tool for stores that need standard product data imports without third-party dependencies.
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How Super Speedy Imports differs from WooCommerce Product CSV Import Suite
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Super Speedy Imports is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Stop waiting, start importing! Get lightning fast imports, import 1 million items in under 100 minutes!
- Works with any post type with some minor limitations
- Update 20,000 stock & prices in under a minute
- Add 1 million posts or products, each with 10 terms, in 100 minutes
- Easy to use interface
- Developer friendly with hooks and filters and custom templates available!
The SQL-first approach taken by Super Speedy Imports results in imports which are over 100 times faster than traditional WordPress row-by-row import techniques.
WooCommerce's official CSV importer processes rows through WooCommerce's standard PHP data layer, which is thorough but slow for large catalogues. It is not designed for bulk imports of hundreds of thousands of products or for frequent automated re-imports. Super Speedy Imports uses direct SQL operations and CLI tooling to work outside the PHP request cycle entirely, making it dramatically faster for high-volume scenarios.
How to choose between WooCommerce Product CSV Import Suite and Super Speedy Imports?
The official WooCommerce CSV importer is reliable for small-to-medium catalogues, but its PHP-based processing hits walls at high volumes. Super Speedy Imports is built for exactly that scale — SQL-first, CLI-driven, and tested against one-million-product catalogues. A free trial is available to test on your own data.
What do others say about Super Speedy Imports?
Even using this early release, the import speed is amazing. Our previous plugin required months to import our large number of products. This tool takes minutes. The ability to run new product additions and updates will change the way we do business.
We've been using this plugin on our live site for a few weeks now and it's been a phenomenal game changer for us. Before with WP All Import, importing products from a supplier would take so long that by the time the import was done, it wasn't even accurate anymore. It was also taking so many resources that our backend would slowly crawl and was near unusable. Now, imports take a few minutes and we can run imports multiple times a day and can keep our products very up to date. We're still moving some imports from WP All Import over to this, but this plugin has been amazing for us. Thank you so much!
Super Speedy Imports Knowledge Base
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- Import Stages
- Quick Start Guide for Super Speedy Imports
- Quick Start Guide: Importing Products with Super Speedy Imports
- Scheduling Automated Imports with Super Speedy Imports
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What's new in Super Speedy Imports?
1.96 (19th November 2025)
- Further optimisation for local image searching to use post_name instead of post_title and no longer needs to use open-ended LIKE wildcard so it's FAST!
1.95 (19th November 2025)
- Fixed bug in 'import config' handler where it was not parsing the json
- Fixed taxonomies list so it only lists taxonomies from the import post type (e.g. not showing Categories on Products, only product_cat instead)
- Made CSV select searchable and made all select boxes same height
- Changed default options for new imports to 'delete items missing from previous import'
- Added new CLI paramter: –delete-all – will delete all posts/products/cpts added by this import id (does not delete terms or images)
- Added 'thorough image search' option defaulted to off, to speed up local image search for Zippas & GetWaffled
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