diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7b21041..fd96d61 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ drf-extra-fields==3.0.4
 django-ipware==3.0.2
 geoip2==4.1.0
 woocommerce==2.1.1
+# manually install `pip install --default-timeout=100 future` to avoid wcapi to timeout
 # required for production
 django-anymail[amazon_ses]==8.2
 boto3==1.17.11
diff --git a/utils/woocommerce.py b/utils/woocommerce.py
index 90ddbea..9645210 100644
--- a/utils/woocommerce.py
+++ b/utils/woocommerce.py
@@ -53,15 +53,16 @@ def migrate_shop_products(url, key, secret, user=None, version="wc/v3"):
         return None
 
     # list products
-    response = wcapi.get('/products/')
+    response = wcapi.get('products/')
     if response.status_code == 200:
         products = response.json()
     elif response.status_code == 401:
         logging.error(f"{response.status_code} [{response.url}]: {response.json()}")
         return None
     else:
-        logging.error(f"Could not load products from {url}: [{response.status_code}]")
-        print(f"Could not load products fom {url}: [{response.status_code}]")
+        import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
+        logging.error(f"Could not load products from {response.url}: [{response.status_code}]")
+        print(f"Could not load products fom {response.url}: [{response.status_code}]")
         return None
 
     # create HistorySync instance and link to every product created
@@ -74,6 +75,9 @@ def migrate_shop_products(url, key, secret, user=None, version="wc/v3"):
     counter = 0
     products_created = []
     for product in products:
+        # extract m2m field data
+        tags = [t.get('name') for t in product.pop('tags')]
+        attributes = [t.get('name') for t in product.pop('attributes')]
         # prepare instance data
         instance_data = {
             'company':company.id,
@@ -87,28 +91,22 @@ def migrate_shop_products(url, key, secret, user=None, version="wc/v3"):
                 instance_data[key] = product[key]
         # remove unwanted fields
         instance_data.pop('id')
-        # extract m2m field data
-        tags = instance_data.pop('tags')
-        attributes = instance_data.pop('attributes')
 
         # alternative method
         serializer = ProductSerializer(data=instance_data)
         if serializer.is_valid():
             try:
                 new = Product.objects.create(**serializer.validated_data)
-                if tags:
-                    new.tags.set(tags)
-                if attributes:
-                    new.attributes.set(attributes)
+                new.tags = tags
+                new.attributes = attributes
                 new.save()
             except Exception as e:
+                import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
                 logging.error(f"Could not create product instance: {str(e)}")
                 continue
             try:
                 # get image
-                headers={
-"User-Agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"
-}
+                headers={"User-Agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"}
                 image_url = product['images'][0]['src']
                 response = requests.get(image_url, stream=True, headers=headers)
                 response.raw.decode_content = True
@@ -121,13 +119,14 @@ def migrate_shop_products(url, key, secret, user=None, version="wc/v3"):
             except Exception as e:
                 logging.error(f"Could not add image to product: {str(e)}")
         else:
+            import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
             logging.error(f"{serializer.errors}")
             continue
 
         products_created.append(new)
         counter += 1
-        logging.info(f"Product {instance_data.get('name')} created")
-        print(f"Product {instance_data.get('name')} created")
+        logging.info(f"Product '{instance_data.get('name')}' created")
+        print(f"Product '{instance_data.get('name')}' created")
 
     # update history.quantity
     history.quantity = counter