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…

Guessing you might have already found a workaround to this issue. You can try downloading the file from this location and shopify includes meta fields.

As a former SAP CC shop owner I can tell you, Shopify (Plus) is awesome. It has enabled us to be much faster, much more agile and to do things that were unthinkable without a 6 figure budget. Anyway, you can now export (some) metafields (depending on the type) and I believe import too. They have ju…

I know this is an old thread but I can not find anything from Shopify or in the community stating you can import metafields however Google Gemini stated it could be done and I was able to do so by following the instructions below. (note if you already have a CSV file to import you can skip exporting…

While I agree that the approach sucks for most consumers, this is LITERALLY the foundational concept of Shopify (following Apple’s philosophy): set up a marketplace where consumers must pay extra for specific features, thus providing revenue streams for small development businesses.

I haven’t had this issue – I think you must only include columns of metafields that you actually want to update. Empty values might also get updated, so you must avoid those. For backup, you can export your products. However this only works for certain metafields (on the other hand, if you can’t ex…

This seems to work at the product level, but we need GTIN/UPC/EAN/ISBN at the variant level. When you create the metafield at the variant level, the field does not appear in the product export (although other variant data does). Is there a solution to this without paying for an add-on app?

Have you made sure that the metafield type is one of the ones supported for export? i.e. can you try if a single line text field is exported on the variant level? I haven’t tried it myself…

Only by trying the export. It will show “product” metafields, but not “variant” metafields. I currently have it set as an integer field. I tried setting it as a single line text field but it did not work. How can I check which variant metafields are supported for export and import?

I don’t know how to do what you want. You might try using google since that is how I found my information (nothing from Shopify came up from what I remember. Google must have pulled it from API reference docs or something).

how? tell me please :downcast_face_with_sweat:

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