How to Find Best-Selling WooCommerce Products (By Category, Date & More)

Are you ready to find out exactly what the best-selling products are in your WooCommerce store?

Knowing your top-performing inventory is crucial for making smart business decisions. There are many times when you need to identify your best-selling WooCommerce products so that you can restock those items before they run out, create special marketing campaigns around them, or bundle them with low-selling products to clear out dead stock.

While WooCommerce offers basic reporting, it can be frustrating if you want to quickly sort your best-selling products by specific parameters like category, attribute, keyword, price range, or publication date. You usually have to export complicated CSV files and manually filter them in Excel.

But there is a much faster way. In this article, we will show you how incredibly easy it is to find your best-selling products with advanced filters using the WP Sheet Editor plugin.

Install WP Sheet Editor to Manage WooCommerce Products

The WP Sheet Editor plugin completely transforms how you manage your store. It provides a lightning-fast Products Spreadsheet where you can see all your product information in a single grid and edit it freely, completely bypassing the slow default WooCommerce interface.

You can skip this step if you already have the plugin installed and activated on your WordPress site.

Once you have installed and activated the plugin, open the products spreadsheet by going to WP Sheet Editor > Edit Products. Here, you will find a complete grid showing all your products, variations, and detailed metadata.

Open the Search Tool

The secret to finding your top-performing products is our advanced Search tool. This feature helps you filter your inventory by literally any parameter in your database. You can even combine multiple search conditions for highly specific results.

To open it, simply click on the Search button located on the plugin’s top toolbar.

Now, let’s explore seven different ways to uncover your most profitable inventory.

1. Find all best-selling products across your entire store

If you want a global view of your top performers regardless of category or type, you just need to filter by the Total Sales field.

In the Search tool, set these exact values to search for all highly sold products:

• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox
  • Field: Total Sales
  • Operator: >
  • Value: 50 (Note: This will find products that have sold more than 50 units. You can adjust this number based on your store’s average sales volume).
• Click on Run search. Your spreadsheet will instantly reload, displaying only your top-selling items.

2. Filter the most sold products by keyword

What if you want to find the best-selling products that contain a specific word in their title, like “shirt” or “summer”? You can combine a keyword search with the sales filter.

Set these values in the Search tool:

• Contains keyword: Enter the specific keyword you wish to search for (e.g., “running”).
• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox
  • Field: Total Sales
  • Operator: >
  • Value: 50
• Click on Run search.

3. Search for best-selling products by category, tag, or attribute

Finding the top sellers within a specific category is incredibly useful for planning category-specific sales or discounts.

In the Search tool, configure these settings to find top products by taxonomy:

• Enter Tags: Start typing the name of a category, attribute, or tag. This dynamic field searches all three taxonomies simultaneously. Select the correct one from the dropdown (e.g., “Clothing”).
• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox
  • Field: Total Sales
  • Operator: >
  • Value: 50
• Click on Run search.

4. Find top-selling downloadable or digital products

If you run a hybrid store that sells both physical goods and digital downloads (like eBooks or software), you might want to isolate the performance of your digital catalog.

In the Search tool, use these exact parameters to find your best-selling downloadable items:

• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox
  • Field: Total Sales
  • Operator: >
  • Value: 50
• Click the Add new button to create a second filtering condition:
  • Field: Downloadable
  • Operator: =
  • Value: Tick the checkbox to confirm it must be a downloadable item.
• Click on Run search.

5. Search for best-selling products by a specific price point

Do you want to know which of your $19.99 products are performing the best? Filtering top-sellers by price range can help you identify pricing sweet spots for your audience.

Enter the following values into the search panel:

• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox
  • Field: Total Sales
  • Operator: >
  • Value: 50
• Click the Add new button to add a second filter:
  • Field: Regular price (or Sale price)
  • Operator: =
  • Value: 19.99 (Enter your desired price).
• Click on Run search.

6. Find the most sold products uploaded in a specific date range

If you recently launched a new seasonal collection (like a Summer Catalog), you probably want to see which of those newly uploaded products are performing the best without old products skewing the data.

Here are the values you need to enter to filter by publication date:

• First, select your timeframe using the Date range date-picker fields (e.g., from June 1st to August 30th).
• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox
  • Field: Total Sales
  • Operator: >
  • Value: 50
• Click on Run search.

7. Filter the best-selling WooCommerce product variations

Variable products can be tricky to analyze. A t-shirt might have 50 sales, but which specific size or color is actually driving those numbers? Let’s find the exact product variations that have registered the most sales.

Enter the following values in the Search tool:

• Tick the Search on variations checkbox. (This tells the plugin to look inside parent products and analyze the individual child variations).
• Tick the Enable advanced filters checkbox
  • Field: Total Sales
  • Operator: >
  • Value: 50
• Click on Run search.

Now that you know how to find your top performers, what about the items that aren’t selling at all? You might be highly interested in our strategic tutorial on How to Improve Sales on Slow-Moving WooCommerce Products.

Enjoy Powerful WooCommerce Reporting!

The advanced search tool inside WP Sheet Editor helps you save hours of frustrating administrative work. Instead of dealing with messy CSV exports, you can find the exact sales data you need, filter products by any parameter, and make smarter inventory decisions with just a few clicks.