Changelog

We’re rolling out a redesigned home page that puts a search box front and center. You can use it to search for a collection, vendor, product type, or tag and go straight to those products with the filter already set.

Under the search box are shortcuts for the most common starting points, short guides for bulk editing, spreadsheet edits, and exports, and a “What’s new” card with the latest update from this changelog.

Many fields and edit options now use the same names as the Shopify admin, in edits, filters, and spreadsheet columns, so what you see in Shopify is what you search for in the app.

• Connect Inventory Locations is now Stocked at location, with the options Stock at this location and Unstock from this location.
• Sort Variants is now Reorder variants, next to Reorder product options.
• Images/Media is now Media. The spreadsheet columns are Media: Add images to end, Media: Add images to start, and Media: Replace all images (can’t undo), and the alt text column is Media: Image alt text.
• Visible on Online Store and Visible on Point of Sale are now Published to Online Store and Published to Point of Sale.
• Search/Replace is now Find and replace everywhere it appears.
• The percent options say what they change: Decrease current price by % and Increase current price by %. The option that sets a price from the compare-at price reads Set to % of the Compare-at price and sits right after those two, since that is the usual way to put products on sale.
• Track Quantity/Inventory and Shopify Tracks Inventory are now Track quantity. Continue Selling Inventory when Out of Stock and Inventory Out of Stock Policy are now Continue selling when out of stock.
• Handle (URL) is now URL handle, Type is Product type, Cost is Cost per item, HS Tariff Code is HS code, Is Physical Product is Physical product (requires shipping), and Theme Template is Theme template (products).
• The spreadsheet column Inventory Level is now Inventory Quantity, the same name as the in-app field, and Add Inventory Level is Adjust inventory quantity.
• Spreadsheet columns for collections, descriptions, and tags read Add to collection, Remove from collection, Description: Add to end, Description: Add to start, and Tags: Replace all (overwrites existing).
• There is one Not in any collection filter. Collections no longer have a manual and smart split in the app, so the two filters had become the same thing. Saved rules and recurring edits that use the old filter keep running.
• Per-variant sales channel fields read {channel}, per variant (advanced), and the Settings page for markets is now Catalogs, Markets and B2B.

Nothing changes in how the edits work. Spreadsheets exported under the old column names still map to the right fields when you upload them, and the old names still work as search terms in the field pickers. Repeating and scheduled exports you set up before this update keep their current column headers, so anything reading those files keeps working. New exports use the new names.

Searching for a field in the Field to edit picker, the Add filter menu, and the spreadsheet column mapping is now more natural, so it’s easier to find what you’re looking for. Fields have aliases, so typing “cogs” finds Cost and “stock” finds Connect Inventory Locations. You can also type the start of two words with a space between them: “var me” is enough to reach your variant metafields, and “comp pri” finds Compare-at Price.

You can now move products between shipping profiles in bulk. Shopify’s admin only lets you add products to a profile one search at a time, and there’s no way to say “everything from this vendor” or “everything in this collection”. A lot of you asked for this, so it’s now a normal edit in the app.

To use it, filter for the products you want, add a modification, and pick Shipping Profile under Variant Fields. Then choose the profile the variants should move to. Each variant leaves the profile it’s in now, because a variant can only be in one shipping profile at a time. The preview doesn’t show the current profile (the app reads it from Shopify while the edit runs), but the edit results list the old and new profile for every variant, and undo moves them back.

Edit history and saved searches now show the names of metaobjects, categories, collections, and products instead of their Shopify IDs. The app already showed names for items you had picked during the same session, but if you opened an edit from a link or reloaded the page you’d see values like gid://shopify/Metaobject/12345. The app now looks the names up in the background when the page opens, so you might see the ID for a moment before it changes to the name.

Spreadsheet edits now handle much larger files. A very large upload (tens of thousands of rows with a lot of text in each cell) could get stuck at the configure step and never let you run the edit. We changed how the app stores the contents of big spreadsheets while an edit is set up and run, so files of that size now go through.

There’s nothing to change on your side. Smaller spreadsheets work the same as before, but if you have a large file that failed at the configure step in the past, it’s worth trying again.

If you set different prices for different markets, bulk price edits are now a lot faster. We changed how the app sends price updates to Shopify, and edits that cover many markets finish in a fraction of the time they used to. Large edits that ran for hours now finish in minutes.

There’s nothing to configure. Spreadsheet edits and regular edits both get the improvement automatically, and it applies to market prices and B2B catalog prices alike.

You can now include Unit Price in spreadsheet exports. Unit prices have been editable in the app for a while, but there was no way to get the current values out. The field is in the Variant Fields group on the export page, and it works in the CSV and Excel formats.

Each cell holds the full unit price measurement as a small JSON value, like this:

{"quantityValue": 100.0, "quantityUnit": "G", "referenceValue": 1, "referenceUnit": "KG"}

That’s the quantity in the package and the reference amount the price is shown per. Variants without a unit price export as a blank cell.

Shopify recently added product disclosures. These are things like Prop 65 warnings and choking hazard notices that Shopify shows to buyers on the product page, in the cart, and at checkout. Each disclosure is a metaobject entry (Shopify seeds the standard ones, and you can write your own custom disclosures) and products point to them through the Disclosures metafield (shopify.disclosure).

Bulk Product Editor now treats that metafield like any other metaobject reference. In a bulk edit, pick Disclosures as the field and you get the same options as other metaobject lists: set the value, add to the start or end, or remove entries. The picker searches your store’s disclosure entries by name, so you can select “Proposition 65 Warning for California Consumers” instead of hunting for an ID.

The Tag filter now has two new options: has no tags and has at least one tag.

You could already do this by choosing a tag comparison and picking [EMPTY] from the tag list, but that option only showed up once you started typing so it was difficult to discover. The old way still works and any saved filters/product rules using it are unchanged.

Shopify treats tags as case-insensitive, so a product can’t have both Jewelry and jewelry at the same time. We’ve improved how tag edits work with these case differences.

When you add a tag that already exists on a product in a different case, the casing you add is now the one that sticks. Eg adding jewelry to a product tagged Jewelry updates the tag to jewelry. This is a good way to clean up tag casing across your catalog, since casing can show up in places like collection pages and storefront filtering.

There’s a new option for editing prices and other number fields: Set as Cost plus amount. It takes each variant’s cost and adds a fixed amount to get the new value. If a variant’s cost is 12.50 and you enter 5, the new price is 17.50.

We already had Set as percent of Cost field, but a percentage markup gives you a different dollar margin on every product. This new option is for stores that price with a flat markup instead. Eg, cost plus 10 across the whole catalog.

Sidekick, Shopify’s AI assistant in the admin, can now work with Bulk Product Editor. You can describe a bulk edit in plain language and have Sidekick set it up for you, get answers from our help docs, or check on your past edits — all without leaving the Sidekick chat.

Set up a bulk edit. Describe a change in plain language — “decrease the price of all Nike products by 10%” or “set every product under $5 to draft” — and Sidekick will build the edit for you. It can filter by product fields, tags, collections, or metafields, and change price, tags, status, descriptions, SEO fields, metafields, and most other fields the app supports. It also resolves fuzzy wording, so “nike” finds the vendor even if it’s stored as “Nike Sportswear”.

Shopify is changing how collections work. Before, a collection was either manual (you picked the products yourself) or smart (rules picked the products for you), and you had to choose one when you created it. Now there’s just one kind of collection, and you can mix and match how products get into it: rules that add products automatically, individual products or variants you add yourself, products pulled in from another collection, and specific products or variants you exclude.

You can now filter products by whether they have a custom SEO Meta Title or SEO Meta Description. Both filters are in the Product Fields group of the filter picker.

Each filter has two options:

• A custom value is set: the product has its own search engine listing title or description.
• Not set: the product doesn’t have a custom value, so search engines fall back to the product’s title or description.

This makes it easy to find products that are missing custom search engine listings. For example, filter by SEO Meta Title > Not set, and then use an in-app edit or export to fill in the missing titles.

When you edit a file reference metafield, you can now click Browse files to open Shopify’s file picker and choose files directly from your store’s Files area. Previously you had to enter a file URL, filename, or file ID by hand; now you can find the file visually and select it, with no copying and pasting required.

The Browse files button is available everywhere the app asks you for a file:

You can now edit file reference metafields directly with in-app edits, for both the single-file file_reference type and the multi-file list.file_reference type. Previously these fields could only be changed through a spreadsheet upload; now you can make the same changes without leaving the app.

Pick a file reference metafield in the “Field to edit” box and point to a file by its URL, its filename, or its Shopify file ID. The app resolves it to the correct file in your store’s Files area.

The preview step before you run an edit now shows the search filters that picked your products, right alongside the modifications you’re about to make. You no longer have to remember or guess which products the edit will touch, since the filters are spelled out where you confirm the change.

Reviewing an edit is also more flexible now. You can move back and forth between the filters and the modifications, tweak either one, and return to the preview to see the updated result before you run anything. That makes it easy to refine exactly which products you’re targeting and what happens to them without starting over.

Publishing and unpublishing to a sales channel used to be an all-or-nothing decision at the product level. Now you can control visibility for each variant on its own, so you can keep a product live while hiding a single size, color, or bundle option from a specific channel.

In the field picker you’ll find a new group called “Variant Sales Channel Publishing”, with one entry per sales channel labeled like “Online Store (Variant Publishing)”. Pick a channel and set the variant to Published or Unpublished, or schedule a publish date for later, exactly the way you already do for product-level publishing. Only true sales channels appear here, so market and catalog publications won’t clutter the list.

If your spreadsheet identifies products by Handle, the values no longer have to be in Shopify’s exact handle format to match.

Shopify stores handles in a specific way: all lowercase, with spaces and most punctuation turned into hyphens (so “Men’s Wool Scarf” becomes “mens-wool-scarf”). Previously, if your file listed handles with capital letters, spaces, or other characters, they wouldn’t line up with what’s in your store and the rows would come back as unmatched. That often happens when a handle column is generated by a supplier feed or another tool you can’t change.