To quickly update the inventory/weight/price/apply a discount on multiple products or variants, you can visit the Store > Inventory page. The actions performed on this page will be bulk.
The Inventory page
- Enter inventory (1) in the search bar.
- Click on the Update Inventory option (2) from the related results.
- You will now reach the Inventory page.
- On this page, you will see a listing of all the existing products and variants.
- From here, you will be able to:
- Search your products by Title, Tags, and SKU.
- Filter the products by category name or with a product status basis.
- Sort your products based on Title, Price, Old to New, or New to Old.
- Bulk Actions – Select multiple or all of your products to change the inventory, price, weight, or apply a discount. Learn more.
- Click on the product to visit the product edit page.
Bulk Actions
- You can update product inventory, weight, price, or apply discounts using the Bulk Actions provided on the Inventory page.
- Select the products/variants (1), click on the Actions button (2), and then, click on the respective action that you want to take on the selected products.
- Once you have taken any action, all the selected products will be updated.
Find below how to:
Update Weight
To know how to update the weight of products in bulk, watch this video:
- The specified weight will be applied to all the selected products.
- See how to update the product weight individually.
- See how to change the unit of weight.
Update Price
To know how to update the product’s price in bulk, watch this video:
- The specified price will be applied to all the selected products/variants.
- See how to update the product price individually.
- See how to change the currency.
Apply Discount
- Using this action you can add a discount to the actual product price that you specified earlier.
- As you apply the discount (in percentage), the actual product price is shifted to the compare at price field and the discounted price becomes the product price.
See how it works:
- The specified discount (in percentage) will be applied to all the selected products/variants.
- See how to update the product price and compare at price of a product individually.
Update Inventory
The Update Inventory button only shows up when you:
- Select all the products
- Select all variants of a single product
- Select different products with no variants
- Select products and variants with the same state of inventory.
When you hit the Update Inventory button (1), you have to choose the inventory status.
- As you choose the OFF – Do not track inventory option, all the products in your store will always be in stock (2).
As you choose the ON-Track inventory option (1), you can manage:
- What to do when the product is out-of-stock –
- You can set the product as sold out if inventory goes to zero.
- Or you can allow customers to purchase these products when it’s out of stock. Typically it would help to take back orders or pre-orders. In this case, inventory shows up as a negative number as orders come.
- Update Quantity –
- Add Quantity to selected products/variants. In this case, the specified quantity is added to the existing quantities of the products.
- Set Quantity of selected products/variants. In this case, the specified quantity is set as the available quantity for all the available products.
- View all the selected products/variants and the quantity available (4).
- Hit the Save button to save the changes.