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 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…

I was also able to convert tags to metafields using Shopify Flow, however I’m having trouble with single line text lists. For some reason I can’t add multiple values from a metafield list without overwriting one or the other. Would anyone be able to help?

Hi there, I was looking to do the same and as of today in 2024 it is possible to export/import Shopify native Metafields. Export a customer test with metafields in it and you will have the column in the csv file e.g. NDIS Number (customer.metafields.custom.ndis_number) Then during the importatio…

When i “Export” CSV file i do not get any column with metafield names? :disappointed_face:

Nice one if you do have Shopify Advance Plan. But this is the basic reason for us regular plan holders have, this is also the reason why we are on this forum. @Dan30707077 Been there, done that. No other workaround without purchasing an add-on, and also have to make sure it is compatible with your…

Faced the same problem, solved by using Metafields Guru to import/export metafields

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marvic January 31, 2024, 4:37am 24

Will try that! Even though our meta tags are complex product descriptions with lists and tables. Let’s see how that works out…

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