Your marketing team needs the product list. Right now.
It's 3pm. Your marketing manager needs every product with prices, categories, and image URLs to build tomorrow's campaign. They don't have WordPress access. They need a spreadsheet.
You navigate to Products, click Export, pick columns, click Generate, wait for the file, download it, realize it timed out because the store has 800 products. Start over. This time with WooCommerce's built-in exporter that loads everything into memory and crashes on shared hosting.
What most people do instead
Every option adds unnecessary steps to a simple task.
A better way: one command, complete CSV
Open the TrueCommander navigator. Type export products csv. Hit enter.
Every published product gets exported with 18 data columns: ID, SKU, name, prices, stock, categories, dimensions, images, and URLs. The file opens cleanly in Excel (UTF-8 BOM included). Download link expires in 1 hour.
Opens correctly in Excel. UTF-8 BOM included. Product names with accented characters, currency symbols, and special characters display correctly without manual encoding steps.
How it works
Batch processing handles catalogs of any size.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Command name | export products csv |
| Columns | 18 (ID, SKU, prices, stock, categories, dimensions, etc.) |
| Status filter | -status=publish|draft|private|pending|any |
| Row limit | -limit=500 (max 5,000) |
| Batch size | 200 products per query |
| Requires | WooCommerce active |
| Can be used in |
Real example
Your client runs a WooCommerce store with 284 products. Their marketing team needs a product spreadsheet for a holiday campaign — names, prices, categories, and image URLs to build promotional materials.
You open the navigator, type export products csv, and hit enter. Three seconds later: 284 products exported, 342 KB, 18 columns. You click Download and email the CSV to the marketing team.
Next week, the client wants draft products too. You run export products csv -status=any. Same result, now with 312 rows including 28 drafts. Total effort: one command, one click.
Goes further with TrueCommander
Manual exports work. Scheduled exports keep everyone updated automatically.