Recently Shopify changed how the Product and Organization area of the Admin page works. Now it takes longer and more steps to make changes or add new products with their drop down menu. We would like to see it go back to the simpler just enter the text in the box with no menus. It was faster and easier.
Putting this her as I have no idea how to suggest it to the developers.
In short this is not possible to revert back the layout of Shopify on how it was before.
This is because there is no way to switch back with the previous version of Shopify within the Admin. When a new update comes in Shopify, then previous one automatically removed.
Hope this helps.
Ya, I didn’t expect to actually find an answer. I guess I was just grumbling about how Shopify keeps changing things and it seems it just makes it more difficult for those of us that maintain larger stores and have to make a lot of changes. Just costs us time which in turn is money.
Hey, I felt this one 
I run Shopify stores too, and these updates can honestly slow things down instead of helping, especially when you’re handling a lot of products. That new dropdown flow in the admin definitely adds extra clicks where it used to be way quicker.
I’ve been trying to work around it with bulk edits and a few small workflow tweaks, but yeah… it’s not as smooth as before.
Out of curiosity, how many products are you usually managing at a time? Always interesting to see how others are handling it.
As a Shopify partner, this change is mostly to bring consistency in taxonomy and reduce conflicting tags when it comes to large catalogs. It does slow down a few workflows, but there are a few ways to get your speed back. The bulk editor remains the fastest way to update the product type and tags in bulk, and you can also use CSV import-export to make multiple edits. In dropdowns, typing is still searched and many times you can add new values without scrolling. For heavy catalogue work, the combination of bulk actions + saved filters really recovers a lot of what was lost efficiency wise through the tedium, and frankly overall workflow improvements.
Our store has about 8400 sku’s. Bulk edits are just another step and not really feasible and on any given day we may be working entering or fixing 20-100 items different items in several collections with no common tags etcetera (migration form our old POS to Shopify meant A Lot Of Work to fix descriptions, add pictures, etc.) Less than 1/3 of the store is really online ready and we (I) have been working on it as much as I can every day for the past year.
I completely agree with you!! Each of my products has a huge number of tags—some have dozens. Before, I could just copy and paste them or add tags directly, but after the update, I now have to click the “+” button every time I add a tag. I just don’t understand why this extra step was added; it wastes a lot of my work time. The original design worked just fine. I really hope this “+” step can be removed in the next version.
Hi, yes that does seem to have made things slower rather than faster! You might want to check out Setary, which is a bulk editor that I’ve just made available to Shopify stores. As well as bulk editing products, it lets you add new products and variants really easily - you just need to add a new row to the spreadsheet (or duplicate an editing one), add the data to each column, and save. That’s much faster than adding products and variants manually as you don’t have to go into multiple pages etc.
Is shopify your entire business in one basket, or are you your own business.
Don’t work in the admin frequently it’s the bare minimum offering built for the least common denominator needs of 5+ million different merchants.
Use spreadsheets, or build custom dashboards SPECIFIC to your workflow needs avoid vendor lockin.
Otherwise your making it so that shopify another company IS your business instead of just a tool being used.
Then hoping some other company doesn’t do whatever they want with their software when ever they want that impacts your business when your not ready for it.
Hi @Central_Hobbies — I reread the full thread and checked the current store.
The key constraint is not only the 8,400 SKUs. It is that the 20–100 products you work on each day are unrelated and do not share useful tags. That is why another bulk editor or saved filter does not really address the workflow you described.
A better fit may be an exception queue rather than batch editing: one list showing products that are missing an image, description, online status, collection assignment, or another required field, with the next incomplete field editable directly from that list.
That would let you work through unrelated products without repeatedly opening each full product page or creating temporary tags.
If useful, I can sketch a simple three-step version of that workflow around one example product, without needing store access.
