Title: Importing product popularity data
Last modified: November 19, 2019

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# Importing product popularity data

 *  Resolved [rudolfl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolfl/)
 * (@rudolfl)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-product-popularity-data/)
 * Hi all,
 * I am working on transferring an e-commerce site from another engine to WordPress.
 * I would like to preserve product popularity data. For each product I can extract
   counts on how many ties it was purchased and viewed. And I would like to import
   this data into WooCommerce so that products are correctly sorted by popularity.
 * Example files do not contain this data.
    CSV column refernce (docs.woocommerce.
   com/document/product-csv-import-suite-column-header-reference/) is not loading
   for me.
 * Can someone tell me what fields to populate?
 * Thanks,
    Rudolf

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 *  Plugin Support [Ryan Ray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanr14/)
 * (@ryanr14)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-product-popularity-data/#post-12153222)
 * Hi [@rudolfl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolfl/),
 * From my best knowledge a popular product in WooCommerce uses a count of how many
   times it’s been ordered. So for your import from one ecommerce platform to WooCommerce
   will you also be importing orders?
 * If so, that should populate the right field for you. If it doesn’t look in the`
   wp_postmeta` table and finding a product by its ID you’ll then see a row for `
   total_sales`. That meta value can be modified to account for the number of sales
   in the previous system.
 * 
    Link to image: [https://cld.wthms.co/7KZ3NR](https://cld.wthms.co/7KZ3NR)
 * I hope that helps!
 *  Thread Starter [rudolfl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolfl/)
 * (@rudolfl)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-product-popularity-data/#post-12153270)
 * Thank you,
 * That is exactly what I was looking for:
    meta:total_sales
 * Rudolf
 *  Plugin Support [Ryan Ray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanr14/)
 * (@ryanr14)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-product-popularity-data/#post-12155713)
 * Hi [@rudolfl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolfl/),
 * Woo, glad that was what you were looking for. Happy to help!

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-product-popularity-data/#post-12155713)
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