Every month, someone on your team exports orders to CSV. And every month, they forget which columns to include. The accountant gets a file with shipping addresses but no payment methods. The warehouse lead gets totals and coupons but no product details. You spend 10 minutes re-exporting with the right columns, and the cycle repeats…
Your invoicing plugin creates invoice numbers for every order. But WooCommerce buries them. To find which order matches invoice INV-2024-00345, you open orders one by one, scanning each detail page until you find it. That’s 15-20 seconds per order. When your accountant sends a list of 30 invoices to reconcile, that’s 10 minutes of clicking….
You need to export 8,000 orders for your accountant. You open WooCommerce’s built-in Analytics export and hit Download. It gives you nine columns: order number, status, customer name, net sales, and a few others. No shipping addresses. No phone numbers. No custom fields. Nothing your accountant actually needs. So you install an export plugin instead….