Adding a certain $$ amount to all products

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Goal: add a fixed dollar amount to all products, ideally temporarily, to enable marketing discounts without hurting margins. The platform workflow from 2022 no longer applies.

Key distinctions: discounts (percent or fixed amount at checkout) vs. permanently changing product prices. OP needs to raise base prices before offering discounts.

Proposed methods:

  • CSV export/edit/import: export all products, adjust prices in a spreadsheet by +$X, then re‑import. Scales to all products and variants.
  • Built‑in bulk editor: Products → All products → Edit; add Price (and optionally Compare‑at price) and adjust. Practical but manual for a flat $ increase across many items; can repeat to revert.
  • Markets → Catalogs: suggested as a place to bulk manage pricing; specifics not detailed.
  • Code customization: modify theme/code to add an extra amount to displayed prices across pages; powerful but risky and must be done carefully.

Status/outcome: No confirmed one‑click, automatic $X increase for all products. CSV or manual bulk editor are the primary actionable options; coding is an advanced alternative. Discussion remains open.

Summarized with AI on December 11. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi community,

I was wondering, if it was still possibly to do a bulk edit on all products and add a certain $$ amount to all products, ideally temporarily. I would like to run marketing campaigns with either $$ amounts off or % off.
I found a solution from 2022, but the platform has changed since and I cannot do that this way now.

Thank you!

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Hi @Sunny17 its possibly commonly just done using the product CSV export and import.

Marketing/discounts is very is different than actually bulk editing product data, don’t conflate the things.

Discounts work as described ( $$ amounts off or % off) so I don’t see what that actual question is.

If you mean you want to charge a FEE, or change prices in the checkout itself that is drastically different.

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I know the difference, thanks :wink:
I need to bulk edit my prices. I have very tight margins and need to up the prices a bit before I can offer a discount to my customers or I will make a loss.

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Then use the product CSV export to to spreadsheet program to add the margins then import the CSV.

5

TY - will do.

Is this the only way?

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go to markets > catalogs, should be able to do it with that

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Hi there! You can bulk‑edit your product prices using Shopify’s built‑in bulk editor. Go to Products → All Products, select the items you want to adjust and click Edit. Add a “Price” column and increase each price by the extra amount you want to charge; when your promotion ends, you can repeat the process to restore the original prices.

Another approach is to leave the product prices untouched and create a discount code or automatic discount that applies a fixed amount at checkout, which can simulate the surcharge without editing every product. Hope this helps!

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I like this idea, I would have to manually go through all prices, right? As it is a $ amount and not a percentage.

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Hi @Sunny17 ,
Yes, it’s still possible, but the method has changed a bit with the newer Shopify updates.

For temporary price increases or “sale” adjustments:

Use Shopify’s built-in bulk editor

  1. Go to Products → All products
  2. Select the items you want
  3. Click Bulk Edit
  4. Add the fields Price and Compare at price
  5. Increase the price or set a higher “compare at” price (for sale-style marketing campaigns)
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Thank you - that is a manual thing again, isn’t it? I was hoping for a solution that does all products at once.

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@Sunny17 you want to do it for all the products and variants then you can do it via coding, add bit more to price code and it will be reflected on all the pages.

This approach needs to modify code carefully as it is related to the prices and single mistake can cause heavy losses.