Hi community, Please tell me there is a way to upload metafield data in bulk by uploading a CSV file… without buying an app for USD20. Surely this should be an easy thing to do? Anyone know how I can do this? The bulk editor doesn’t help as I can’t paste data into the bulk editor, and need to manu…

I agree but what are the alternatives? WooCommerce, Big Commerce. Shopify is very easy for non-developers and newbies. The apps allow a layman to use functionality that others require a programming knowledge. However, one thing to note that if you don’t have hundreds of items, you can still add the…

You are right about that, the barrier to entry for Shopify is very low compared to other options but in retrospect, I would have probably been better off spending a bit more time, money and effort to go with an alternative than being in the situation now of having to constantly add more 3rd party ap…

I tell my clients not to expect $39/month, but rather around $125 to $200 which will include all necessary apps to run their business. For uploading products I suggest using Matrixify which costs $20/month for 5000 items and you can upload all the metafields you like using an excel spreadsheet in CS…

Hey @merchant Thank you for suggesting the use of the Matrixify app for bulk managing Metafields. Indeed that is one of the features that we offer with our app and we actually have a great tutorial specifically for this feature - How to manage Shopify Metafields? If any questions or concerns come…

I can also not understand why this is not possible :see_no_evil_monkey: Shopify please do something!

I would happily pay more for not having to look up every basic functionality and deal with 3rd party apps. They are a massive privacy liability. The amount of data that they need to access,… we could basically just provide all of our customer data, revenue and other critical business data as a zip f…

We’ve come up with a workaround that works for us. We bulk upload tags, and we use Shopify Flow to convert the tag into a metafield. e.g. we have a tag called brand_b1. Shopify Flow will automatically set the “brand” metafield to “b1” for this product. You can read more on the Shopify Flow require…

That’s great to know, but I am more concerned about the other way around atm, as I’ve added metafields manually while growing the shop. It’ll be a pain to copy paste them manually to create a backup, also they change from time to time, so it will be tedious to keep any manual backup up to date.

You should be able to modify the Shopify flow to do the inverse, i.e. push metafield values into tags. A backup will then be an occasional product export since tags are part of the product export. Of course, if you’re updating the metafields regularly then syncing metafields to tags requires a manu…

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Why should we pay for this basic requirement that Shopify should provide in exporting products?

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