Importing Customers (without Importing Orders)

When migrating your WooCommerce data to Shopify using Ablestar WooCommerce Importer, you have a few options:

• Import Products (usually recommended as the first step)
• Import Orders and/or Customers.

In some rare cases, you might want to import only the customers. Here is what to watch out for in that scenario.

Linked Orders

In the Shopify admin section, products, customers and orders are made to link up to each other for the most efficient view.

In this example from the Shopify admin 'Customers' view, the most recent orders are linked up to this customer. Clicking on the link for the Order # or Product would redirect you to more information because they are linked:

In order for our app to create links between your orders and customers, both orders and customers must be migrated together. 

Import Only Customers

In this image, customers were imported by themselves, without any product or order import. We can see that the customer does have an order history, but we cannot see the details of the order because they were never imported:

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

• What happens if I skip the Product Import?