Making product fields required (e.g. SKU and price)

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Goal: prevent saving products without a SKU (stock keeping unit) and with a $0 price by making those fields required in the product admin.

  • There is no native way in Shopify’s product admin to enforce required fields for SKU or price.
  • Suggested workaround: manage products via Excel/Google Sheets with data validation/constraints, then use Shopify CSV import/export to enforce completeness indirectly.
  • Practical outcome: A Shopify Flow automation was set up to email a link to edit any newly added product missing a SKU, price, or product type.

Status: No built-in enforcement; issue mitigated via Flow alerts and optional spreadsheet validations. Discussion effectively resolved with a workaround.

Summarized with AI on December 19. AI used: gpt-5.
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Sometimes I forget to set SKU and I leave price at $0.

Is there a way to make product add/edit require these before saving so I don’t goof?

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Hi @stormeagle :waving_hand: There is no native support for the products admin to behave this way.

So any workflows have to create such a process requirement indirectly.

Such as using excel/googlesheets to setup validations/constraints to make fields “required” to then in turn use shopify’s CSV import/export.

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Thank you, I was able to use Flow to email me a link to edit a product that is added without SKU, Price or Product Type.