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Square sync loses multiple WooCommerce categories

Square-to-WooCommerce category sync drops or overwrites multiple product categories because Square reports only one per item

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

5 public reports · first reported 22 May 2020 · last reported 23 July 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Square lets a product sit in several categories but treats only one as primary, and the WooCommerce sync reads or writes just that one.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.