Changelog

We’ve made your product exports with the Bulk Product Editor a whole lot faster. The speed depends on things like the number of products and the type of fields you choose.

Some exports that previously took around 24 minutes now finish in just one minute. In some cases, we’ve seen the process become more than 20 times quicker.

If you’re exporting lots of meta fields or Google Shopping fields, you should see a big speed boost when you’re exporting data. Our aim is to make these exports run as fast as possible. If you continue to encounter any slowdowns in product exports please reach out and we’ll try and improve them.

In the past, you may have found it challenging to navigate through the small dropdowns when mapping different fields in our spreadsheet interface. Therefore, we’re switching from dropdown menus to a more intuitive field selector pop-up.

This new design will not only provide a larger, clearer selection area but also include all the same field options as before.

The field selector is also more compatible with keyboard shortcuts allowing you to select the fields you want more quickly and with fewer clicks.

We’ve improved our Link Manager’s site scan tool. It will now better identify and report broken links on your Shopify site, even when multiple pages refer to the same broken link. You may notice minor changes in your reports compared to previous weeks due to these enhancements.

The Inventory Sync feature in our Bulk Product Editor now supports Google Sheets URLs. This means you can easily integrate and synchronize your inventory data directly from Google Sheets. We support Google Sheet URLs, just keep in mind that the URL needs to be publicly available and there has to be data in the Google Sheet.

Learn more about Google Sheets and Inventory Sync.

Until now, the order count metric included all orders placed over the reporting period. This count included orders made solely for gift cards.

Starting today, we are updating the way we count orders. We will now be excluding orders that are exclusively for gift cards from the order count. This change is aimed to closely align our metrics with Shopify’s reporting system.

In Shopify’s reports, orders that are exclusively for gift cards aren’t counted as a typical ‘order’. Therefore, to maintain consistent and accurate reporting for our users, we decided to replicate this in our Email Reports App.

You can now schedule spreadsheet edits from remote data sources using Inventory Sync. With this feature the app will download a spreadsheet from Google Drive, Dropbox, an FTP server, or a web URL, on a schedule and then use it to update your Shopify products.

You don’t need to reformat your spreadsheet into a strict format and, as with other edits done through the app, you can undo any changes if need to.

The Bulk Product Editor app now offers enhanced file format support for seamless data management. In addition to Excel (.xlsx) and CSV (.csv) files, we’ve added compatibility for two more spreadsheet file types: semicolon-separated files and tab-separated files.

Previously, the app recognized CSV files with comma-separated fields as the standard format. However, we understand that some users prefer using semicolons or tabs as delimiters in their spreadsheets.

With this update, the Bulk Product Editor app intelligently detects the file format and automatically adjusts the import process accordingly. This update eliminates the need for manual configuration and ensures a smoother importing experience for all users.

We’ve made it possible for you to edit SEO data directly from the product detail pages.

Before this update, the SEO data was read-only, but now you’ll be able to edit both the meta title and meta description HTML tags that show up in your pages. This will be a huge help when it comes to optimizing your pages for search engines and driving more traffic to your site.

We have released a new update for our Bulk Product Editor app. When you search for products, you can deselect products that you want to exclude from the search. Previously, if you went to another page besides the first page and deselected a product, you would be taken back to page one. With this update, you’ll stay on the current page after deselecting a product, making it easier to remove multiple products without losing your place in the pagination.

We’re excited to announce a new update to the Bulk Product Editor that makes managing your product metafields even easier!

Previously, you could only change text metafields on product detail pages, but now you can add different types of metafields, including numeric metafields, true/false metafields, and list of strings metafields.

With these new metafield types, you’ll be able to add more detailed information to your products and manage them more effectively. We hope you find these updates helpful, and as always, we welcome your feedback.

We are excited to announce another new feature in our Bulk Product Editor! We have added the ability to set the language for the AI product descriptions in the Selling section. With this update, you will have the option to select the language in which all outputs will be generated.

Please read our knowledge base article generating product descriptions with ChatGPT for more information.

We’re excited to announce a new update to our Bulk Product Editor app!

We’ve added images to the product detail pages to make it easier for you to keep track of which product you’re viewing. While the images are currently read-only, they can be helpful in quickly identifying the product you’re working on.

We are excited to announce a new feature on the product detail pages of our Bulk Product Editor app.

Now, you can easily navigate through your products with the addition of next/previous arrows. This feature allows you to move forward or backward through your products without having to return to the search page.

With this new functionality, you can streamline your product editing process and save time by quickly jumping from one product to another. Whether you’re making small tweaks or major updates to your products, the next/previous arrows make it easier to stay organized and focused.

We’re excited to announce the release of the Ablestar Command Palette, a powerful tool designed to help you navigate our app with ease. With just a few keystrokes, you can quickly access any page, product, or setting you need.

The Command Palette also includes a search function that matches on partial product titles or exact SKU matches, making it even easier to find what you’re looking for.

To get started with the Command Palette, simply press cmd + k on Mac or ctrl + k on Windows/Linux. We’ve also included a list of keyboard shortcuts that will help you work more efficiently in our app.

Our Shopify bulk editor for products keeps an up-to-date copy of your product data in its database so you can run custom searches for products. Each time a product is updated in Shopify the app receives the change notification (a webhook message) from Shopify and updates its database.

Due to limitations of the Shopify API, changes to the some data sources cannot be synced with the Bulk Product Editor app in real-time. If you have made changes to these data sources outside of the Bulk Product Editor you’ll need to manually trigger a data refresh.

You can now generate, or rewrite, product descriptions automatically using artificial intelligence. Powered by ChatGPT, this feature allows you to efficiently create concise, engaging product descriptions, saving you time and effort.

To update your product descriptions, just open up the product in the app and click on the Rewrite button below the description:

After a few seconds you’ll be presented with a fresh description that you can review and save. You can also rewrite the description multiple times to get the exact output you need.

You can now connect product inventories to one or more locations with a spreadsheet edit. Previously you could connect inventories to different locations with an in-app edit but using a spreadsheet can make it faster if you have a lot of unique combinations of products and locations.

To connect inventory just upload a spreadsheet with an identifier and the location’s ID to the app and select ‘Connect Inventory to Location’ from the field drop down list:

When filtering for the products you want to edit there can be cases where you want to manually exclude one or two products from the search results. For example, you might want to edit all products in a collection except for two products that are a special case.

Previously you could add an aditional filter to remove these products but it could be time consuming if there wasn’t any common, searchable, attribute between them.

Previously, when you exported product data in CSV or Excel format the default file name would just be the name of the first column of the spreadsheet in lower case. For example, product_handle.csv. This naming convention could make it difficult to go back and find an downloaded export you were looking for.

We’ve updated the default file name for the exports so now they’re in the format of:

Product Handles 2023-03-23_090807.csv

You can now delete an arbitrary set of products directly with a spreadsheet edit. To do so just upload a spreadsheet with two columns, one to identify the products or variants and the other containing the text ‘delete’.

As with in-app edits to delete products, this action cannot be undone. In many cases is may be better to set the products to the ‘Archived’ state instead.

Learn more about bulk deleting products and variants in Shopify.