In Lightspeed eCom, you can use the Bulk Product Editor to mass update products and product variations in your online store. This tool allows you to edit multiple product properties, including shipping settings, out of stock behavior, ribbons, and so on. Product info is presented in a tabular form which makes the mass editing process fast and easy.
If you want to apply the same change to all the selected items, try the Mass Update tool.
What product details you can edit with Bulk Product Editor in eCom
You can edit the following product properties using Bulk Product Editor:
- Images and videos
- Categories
- Product subtitles (in all your store languages)
- Product ribbons
- Whether the product is featured on the store homepage
- “Compare to” price
- Out of stock behavior
- Product quantity when the low stock notification is sent
- Order quantity limits
- Whether the product requires shipping or pickup
- SEO page title and meta description (in all your store languages)
- Whether writing reviews is enabled for this product
- Custom URL slugs
Editing products with Bulk Product Editor in eCom
Before entering the Bulk Product Editor, you need to choose which products you want to update. You can either mass update all the products in your eCom store or select several items.
To edit products with Bulk Product Editor:
- In Retail POS, navigate to Online → Overview, scroll down and click Go to eCom (E-Series).
- From your eCom admin, go to Catalog → Products.
- To update all products, click Bulk Edit All.
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To update specific products, tick the products you want to update. To speed up products search, click Filter in the left upper corner to use filters. Then, click Bulk Edit Selected:
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On the Bulk Product Editor page, you will see the list of products, as well as their variations. Products are table rows, and product properties are table columns:
- In the Columns menu on the left, tick the properties you want to edit to add the corresponding columns to the table and untick the ones you don’t need.
- Click on the cell of this property in the row of the product/product variation.
- Make the necessary changes.
- Click Save.
Using tips and shortcuts in Bulk Product Editor in eCom
You can edit the cells that have a white background in the table. Cells with a grey background are not available for editing.
Click the column name to sort products based on this property.
To navigate the table, you can either click on the cell that you need with a cursor or use your keyboard:
- Press Tab to select a cell and switch into keyboard navigation mode.
- Use arrow keys (→, ←, ↑ or ↓) to move to the next/previous cell in the row/column (available after pressing Tab.
- Press Enter to enter changes into the cell and move to the next cell in the column. You can also press Enter to start editing the selected cell.
- Press Esc to discard the ongoing changes in the cell.
- Press Spacebar to put a tick in the cell/to untick it.