In this article we’ll go through the processes of creating a sale on our Shopify store with our Bulk Product Editor app. We’ll be working on a sample store where we want to offer a 10% discount for all products with the ‘Desk & Chair’ product type We’ll cover:
- Tagging the products we want to include in the sale
- Setting the ‘compare at’ price on our products
- Reducing the product prices by 10%
- Removing the product tags once the sale is complete
You can follow along on your own store by installing the free version of Bulk Product Editor for Shopify.
Tagging products in bulk
The first thing we want to do is add a tag named ‘Last Chance!‘ to products with the product type equals ‘Desk & Chair’. Depending on your theme settings this should be visible to customer and it will also help us identify the products in the future. We’ll do this by adding a filter to our edit by clicking on the Filter dropdown and choosing an option.
Select the products to put on sale
Once we see the products we want to add click on the Modify Products button.
On this page we tell the app how we want to edit the products we just filtered for. Here we’ll say to add the ‘Last Chance!’ tag to all the products:
Adding the ‘Last Chance!’ tag
Once we’ve added the tag we’ll preview the edit to make sure that everything looks good and then we’ll run it:
Editing the Shopify Products
Depending on the number of products you have this may take several minutes. Fortunately the edits run in background and you can navigate away from the page without loosing your progress.
Setting the ‘compare at’ price of products
Before we decrease the price of our products we want to set the ‘compare at’ price to current price of the product. When we’re all done, this will ensure that the ‘compare at’ price is higher than the sale price and it will show up correctly on your site.
In technical terms, we’ll use the Bulk Product editor to set the “Compare at Price” field to be 100% (or equal) to the ‘Price field’. We can quickly do this with the app:
Bulk editing product prices
Now that we have the ‘compare at’ price set up let’s reduce the prices by 10%. We’ll filter for the ‘Last Chance!’ tag again and then run an edit on the price, choosing to round the price to the nearest 95 cents:
At this point the sale is ready to go, we’ve updated the tags, compare at price, and price and now it’s time to spread the word!
Removing tags from multiple products
Once the sale is finished you might want to remove the ‘Last Chance!’ tags that we added in step one. We have two ways to do this:
- Undo, or revert, the previous edit that we created
- Create a new edit to remove the tags
For this example we’ll just undo the previous tag edit to put things back to how they were before. To undo an edit, we’ll click on Edit History on the top right of the app, choose the edit and then click Undo
Conclusion
In this article we covered the basic of the Bulk Product Editor app and showed how you can easily launch a sale on a custom selection of products. There’s still lots of other features this blog post didn’t cover (including editing products via CSV/Excel) but now you know the basics.
And as always, if you have any questions feel reach to reach out.