How to Search for a Product by UPC Number in Admin?

[Benbash]

I've added a UPC as a metafield, and it now appears in the product admin section.

I would like to find a specific product in the admin area using its UPC number.

How can I accomplish this?

[Ablestar_Daniel]

Hello,

Shopify has a standard 'Barcode' field that you can use to store the UPC: 

An advantage to using this field instead of a metafield is that you can easily search for it in the Shopify admin:

If, however, you need to store the UPC as a metafield for some reason, there isn't an easy way to search for metafield contents. The only two things I can think of are:

• Use the Shopify admin to export all your product data to a CSV file. This CSV file will include metafields and then you can filter for your products there
• Use a third-part app like our Ablestar Bulk Product Editor which supports searching for products by metafields

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's an easy way to do this just within the Shopify admin

Best,

Daniel

[Benbash]

Thank you for your response! I’ve installed Ablestar. Could you please guide me on how to search for metafields directly?

[Ablestar_Daniel]

Hi @Benbash,

You can search by metafields from the product page of the app. To get there you can either click on Start a new bulk edit from the home page of choose the Products option in the left-hand menu.

When you're on the products page it'll look similar to the regular products page in the Shopify admin except you have more filters and actions. To filter for products by metafield:

• Click on the Add filter button
• Choose the metafield from the list. You can either scroll down to the 'Metafields' section or start typing the name of the metafield
• Choose how you want to search for the metafield (matching some text, if it's set etc..) and click on Add filter

Here's a short video showing what it looks like:

Once you have the products selected you can either:

• Click on individual products to view them in the Shopify admin
• Click on Edit products to bulk edit the products
• Click on Export to export the matching products to a spreadsheet

I hope this helps, let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

Best,

Daniel