Transfer Brands for WooCommerce

Description

Official WooCommerce 9.6 Brand Migration Tool

With WooCommerce 9.6 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.

Transfer Brands for WooCommerce provides the missing link that WooCommerce doesn’t offer – a safe, reliable way to migrate all your existing brand attributes (both taxonomy-based and custom) to the new WooCommerce 9.6 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.
• Image Transfer: Automatically transfers brand images along with brand data.
• 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.
• 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:

1. Using the « Analyze Brands » function to check your data
2. Ensuring you have a recent database backup
3. Testing on a staging site if possible
4. Verifying that the backup feature is enabled in settings

Transfer Process

The transfer process operates in three phases:

1. Backup: Creates a backup of existing brand data
2. Terms Transfer: Creates or maps taxonomy terms
3. 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

For support requests, please use the WordPress.org support forums.