Shopify merchants are requesting a native menu duplication feature, particularly for seasonal navigation changes like Christmas promotions. The original poster highlighted the problem: they cannot duplicate complex menus for testing before going live, forcing them to either recreate entire menus manually (time-consuming and error-prone) or edit live menus directly without preview capability.
Community Response:
Multiple users confirmed experiencing the same frustration, especially those with seasonal businesses or complex automotive/category menus
The issue has persisted for at least 2+ years without official Shopify resolution
Users express disappointment that such a basic feature remains unavailable
Current Workarounds:
Third-party Chrome extension (~$10 one-time cost)
Paid apps like Matrixify (export/import menus via Excel)
Menufy app (includes free tier)
Free community-created tool (shared via tutorial link)
Manual technical solution using browser developer tools (video tutorial provided)
Status: The discussion remains unresolved with no official Shopify response. Users continue advocating for this as a standard platform feature rather than requiring paid apps or technical workarounds.
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Ahead of Christmas last year I was astonished to see that I couldn’t duplicate a navigation menu and reached out to support and was told that it wasn’t possible at that time.
I am raising again now here so that others can tell you that this is needed and so that you can get it sorted ahead of Christmas this year.
I wanted to add a Christmas section to my reasonably complex navigation menu.
I wanted to test the menu in my online shop preview, then swap the current menu for the Christmas menu once I was happy with it.
I then wanted to swap back to my old menu after Christmas.
I can see that my two options are:
Recreate the entire menu and add the Christmas section (seems crazy) and prone to errors and very time consuming.
Edit the live menu to add the Christmas sections, then edit the live menu again after Christmas (seems crazy) and prone to errors.
PLEASE add a straightforward way to duplicate menus…
Thanks for your interest, but I don’t wish to share my store url as I don’t see that it is relevant to the thread and wish to have a separation between the online presence of the store and the forum.
I also need this feature of duplicate menu. I have created a main menu of all categories and i have to create again whole menu for header with limited categories and add again all the collection one by one. Really frustrating.
Same, same same! I also need this option desperately, when switching up the menu, all current options - are as already mentioned heavily in this thread - ridiculous options , like updating the live theme without the ability to test, and/or extremely time consuming. Please fix this!!!
I surprised its not a thing yet. +1 for this feature (or at least let us have access to the code part of this list so we can edit/copy paste in bulk instead of this tedious chore by clicking on menus and selecting things from dropdowns…)
Omg this has not been solved yet? I also need the same thing. It’s so complicated to have a duplicate menu function? Or else just propose a way we can do so.
well, it would be great to have dynamic menus based on metafields and/or tags. you can do this in theme. i want clone/duplicate and import/export too. oh, and the Product default sort should be – at the very least – date created descending
Adding my vote here to this feature request after having spent an afternoon manually re-creating a complex menu in order not to have to edit it on the live site. A simple duplicate button would be an amazing addition.
