changing the cost price of each products variant

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A user asks whether product costs can be applied to all variants at once or must be set individually.

Solutions offered:

  • Shopify apps for bulk editing: Three apps are recommended for updating cost prices across multiple variants simultaneously:

    • Bulk Product Editor & CSV Import
    • Matrixify (includes a specific tutorial for bulk updating variant costs)
    • Ablestar Bulk Product Editor

  • Native Shopify feature: The built-in Bulk Edit function allows copying and pasting cost values across variants. When adding new variants, they automatically inherit the cost/price from the first variant.

The discussion provides both third-party app solutions and a native Shopify workaround for efficiently managing variant cost prices without manual one-by-one entry.

Summarized with AI on October 31. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Is there a way to apply the cost of the product to each variant in the listing or do we have to do it one at a time?

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HI @Kimberlyw1 ,

You can try these Shopify apps for bulk editing the cost price of product variants:

Bulk Product Editor & CSV Import

Matrixify

Ablestar Bulk Product Editor

These apps allow you to update cost prices and other product details in bulk.

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Hello @CodingFifty and @Kimberlyw1

Thank you for mentioning the Matrixify app.

You sure can use our app to bulk import and update the Product Cost attribute in your Shopify store.

We also have a tutorial specifically for this use case - Bulk Update Product Variant Cost Per Item with Matrixify.

If you have any questions or concerns along the way, feel free to contact Matrixify support directly.

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in Bulk Edit and you can copy/paste them to be all the same. if you add a variant it will default to the first variants cost/price