New Update for Adding a Product to Order is Tedious and Costs more Clicks

Topic summary

Shopify recently updated the “add product” interface when adding items to orders, introducing a more restrictive search functionality.

Previous behavior:

  • Users could search products using multiple identifiers simultaneously: product title, variant title, SKU, or barcode

New behavior:

  • Search defaults to product title only
  • Requires additional clicks to select alternative search criteria (SKU, barcode, etc.)

Impact:

  • Significantly increases time and effort required to add products to orders
  • User requests reverting to the previous, more flexible search system

A screenshot illustrates the new interface showing the search type selector that now requires manual selection.

Summarized with AI on October 29. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Shopify account just updated the “add product” UI to this new format which costs more clicks and headaches

This is the screen that pops up when you’re trying to add an item to an order. In the past, if you needed to add an item, you could search for it by typing any of the product’s identifier - product title, variant title, SKU, barcode. But the new update has defaulted to searching by the product title only! So now, you need to spend an extra click or two to choose what you’re searching by and this costs a TON of time!

Please change it back!

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