How to Import Temu Products to Shopify

Sourcing products from Temu and importing them into your Shopify store sounds straightforward — until you try it. Temu's product export format and Shopify's CSV import format use completely different column names, value formats, and structure. Import the file as-is and Shopify will either reject it entirely or create broken product listings with missing handles, unpublished status, and zero-price variants.

Why Temu exports don't work in Shopify

Shopify's importer is strict. Every column header must match the exact name and casing from Shopify's official product CSV template. Temu exports use generic e-commerce column names that are close but not identical — and Shopify silently ignores any column it doesn't recognise, which means most of your product data never makes it in.

Beyond column names, there are four structural problems:

• Temu files have no Handle column — Shopify requires it
• Availability is stored as 1 / 0, not TRUE / FALSE
• Prices often include currency symbols ($12.99) that Shopify rejects
• Weight is in grams as a decimal — Shopify expects an integer in the Variant Grams column

Temu vs Shopify: column name differences

Every column in a Temu export needs to be renamed before Shopify will recognise it.

Manual fix: step by step

If you want to fix the CSV yourself, here's the full process in Google Sheets or Excel:

1. Open the Temu export in Google Sheets. If characters look garbled, the file is Windows-1252 encoded — re-import it specifying UTF-8.
2. Rename every column header using the table above. Column names are case-sensitive in Shopify — title will not work, it must be Title.
3. Add a Handle column. In a new column A, use this formula and drag it down: =LOWER(REGEXREPLACE(B2,"[^a-zA-Z0-9]+","-")) where B2 is the Title column. Check for duplicates — each handle must be unique.
4. Fix the Published column. Replace 1 with TRUE and 0 with FALSE using Find & Replace. Make sure to match entire cell contents only, or you'll corrupt other columns.
5. Clean the price column. Remove any $ or currency symbols. Use Find & Replace to delete $, then format the column as plain Number with 2 decimal places.
6. Add required variant columns Shopify needs even if Temu didn't export them: Variant Inventory Policy (set to deny), Variant Fulfillment Service (set to manual), Variant Requires Shipping (set to TRUE).
7. Export as CSV UTF-8. In Google Sheets: File → Download → CSV. In Excel: Save As → CSV UTF-8 (comma delimited) — not the plain CSV option.
8. Test with a small batch first. Import 5–10 products to verify everything looks correct before running the full file.

On a 200-product export this process typically takes 45–90 minutes and requires careful attention — one wrong Find & Replace can corrupt the entire file.

Automatic fix: upload to EcomCSVFix

EcomCSVFix handles all of the above automatically in a single pass. Upload your raw Temu export and the tool will:

• ✓Rename all column headers to Shopify's exact format
• ✓Generate a unique Handle for every product
• ✓Convert 1/0 to TRUE/FALSE across all boolean columns
• ✓Strip currency symbols and normalise prices to 2 decimal places
• ✓Fix encoding issues if the file was saved from Excel
• ✓Flag any rows it couldn't fix automatically with a warning

You get a full cleaning report showing every change made, then a download link for the fixed file. The whole process takes under 30 seconds.