What happened to shopify product editor?
Try to use bulk editor, but it changed a lot. Usually you can easily changed everything by bulk editor. Now the bulk edit SKUs function has gone.
Please help!
Topic summary
Shopify’s product editor has undergone changes that removed or obscured the bulk edit SKU functionality, causing workflow disruptions for merchants managing products with multiple variants.
Key Issues Reported:
- SKU fields no longer visible in the standard product editor
- Variant display limited to first 10 items, problematic for products with 30+ variants
- Inventory quantity editing restricted to bulk editor only
- Overall perception that the editor has regressed in usability
Workaround Identified:
Users can access SKU bulk editing by selecting all variants, then clicking the “Bulk edit” button that appears. This opens Shopify’s bulk editor with the SKU column visible (demonstrated via screenshots).
Remaining Concerns:
- Extra clicks required disrupt established workflows
- Bulk editor reported as buggy by some users
- No apparent option to revert to previous editor version
- One user suggested a Chrome extension (“Better Admin for Shopify”) as an alternative solution for faster SKU editing with preset capabilities
Status: Issue acknowledged but unresolved; merchants adapting to new workflow requirements.
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+1 on this, the new variant editor when you get to a single product is awful. We can’t see SKUs or anything, and when you bulk edit, it only shows the first 10 variants. What’s the deal here? We can’t even edit the inventory quantity unless we’re in bulk editor..
Some of our products have 30+ variants. How can we bulk edit all variants, or better yet, how can this change be reverted?
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yes.
Can’t see SKUs or anything.Only shows the first 10 variants. We think the product editor went backward 
Hello,
If you select all your variants there’s a Bulk edit button that appears:
If you click on that you’ll see the Shopify bulk editor with the SKU column visible, is this what you were looking for?
Best,
Daniel
Agreed, I wish there were a way to change it back. You can select them and go into the bulk editor, but it’s an extra click, change in workflow that is time consuming. The bulk editor is always buggy for me too, I can’t just quickly edit parts of SKUs as my SKUs follow the same format and just require a number change each time. Tried to find a way to automate editing via flows but not really clued up enough to tell if it’s possible.
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With this Chrome extension, you can also edit SKUs even more easily and quickly using the bulk editor. You can simply create a preset for SKUs and then quickly start editing again and again.