Transfer Brands for WooCommerce

Official WooCommerce 9.6 Brand Migration Tool

6 launching on January 20th, 2025, all stores will have the Brands feature enabled by default. This creates a migration challenge for stores that already use brand attributes – your existing brand data won’t automatically transfer to the new system.

6 brand taxonomy without losing any data.

Unlike manual migration that risks data loss, our plugin:

* Preserves all brand relationships and hierarchies

* Transfers brand images automatically

* Provides complete backup and rollback functionality

* Shows real-time progress with detailed statistics

* Handles stores of any size with batch processing

Transfer Brands Enhanced for WooCommerce is a powerful tool that simplifies the process of migrating your product brand attributes to a dedicated product_brand taxonomy. This is particularly useful for store owners who want to improve their brand management and enhance storefront navigation.

Key Features

• User-friendly Interface: With an intuitive admin interface showing real-time progress during transfers.

• Universal Image Transfer: Automatically detects and transfers brand images from 30+ different themes including Woodmart, Porto, Flatsome, XStore, Electro, and more.

• Theme Compatibility: Full support for popular WooCommerce themes – your brand images will transfer regardless of which theme you use.

• Custom and Taxonomy Attribute Support: Works with both custom and taxonomy-based brand attributes.

• Batch Processing: Process products in batches to avoid timeouts on large stores.

• Backup System: Built-in backup and rollback functionality for risk-free transfers.

• Analysis Tool: Analyze your brands before transfer to identify potential issues.

• WooCommerce Integration: Automatically uses the brand permalink settings from WooCommerce.

• HPOS Compatible: Fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.

• ACF Support: Works with Advanced Custom Fields brand images.

• Detailed Logging: Comprehensive logging for troubleshooting (in debug mode).

Use Cases

• You want to migrate your brand attributes to prepare for WooCommerce 9.6 update

• You need to replace an existing brand attribute with a proper taxonomy for better store organization

• You want to improve your store’s SEO by using proper brand taxonomy pages

• You need to implement brand filtering on your shop pages

• You want to consolidate different brand attributes into a single taxonomy

Why Use a Brand Taxonomy?

Converting your brand attributes to a taxonomy offers several advantages:

• Better SEO with dedicated brand archive pages

• Enhanced filtering options in your store

• Simplified brand management

• Ability to add additional brand metadata (like logos, descriptions, etc.)

Additional Information

How to test before transferring

Before running a full transfer, we recommend:

• Using the “Analyze Brands” function to check your data

• Ensuring you have a recent database backup

• Testing on a staging site if possible

• Verifying that the backup feature is enabled in settings

Transfer Process

The transfer process operates in three phases:

• Backup: Creates a backup of existing brand data

• Terms Transfer: Creates or maps taxonomy terms

• Product Assignment: Associates products with the new taxonomy terms

After Transfer

After completing a transfer, you can:

• Keep both the old attribute and new taxonomy (default)

• Remove the old brand attribute data (optional)

• Further customize your brand taxonomy

Support

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