WooCommerce product categories in a live spreadsheet

Add the Product categories table to a sheet as a data source named product_categories and its 5 columns become names your formulas, pivot tables and charts use. Sheets reads it from your WooCommerce store each time the sheet opens or refreshes.

Formulas on this table

=data.product_categories.sum(products)
Total products. Adds up the Products column over every row of Product categories.
=data.product_categories.sum(products, name, A2)
Products per name. With a name in A2, the total for that one. Fill it down next to a list of them.
=list.product_categories(name)
Every name, once. Spills the distinct name values down the column: the row labels for the formula above.
=data.product_categories.count(name, name, "<>")
Rows with a name. Counts the rows whose Name is not empty.

Columns

ColumnIn formulasType
NamenameText
SlugslugText
ParentparentText
ProductsproductsWhole number
IDidText

Other catalog tables

Your product categories, live

Orders, refunds, products, customers and coupons become live tables inside your WordPress admin. Sales reports and dashboards stay current without exporting a CSV.