Several of my products have two variants. I used to be able to open up all the variants and edit each one. Now I have to Search them! Has anyone else seen anything more clunky and time consuming in their lives???
I found out today when I went to edit the photo of one variant, and found that if I clicked on one of the variants, it sent me to Bulk Edit. I finally found out from the AI that I had to Search my variants.
Why is Shopify making us take LONGER to get stuff done?
And the only way to give feedback, apparently, is to come here. And wait for others to find this post and uptick it.
So PLEASE if you find this, please give it an uptick. Maybe eventually they will take notice.
Yeah this one caught me off guard too. The old layout where you could just see all your variants and click into any of them was way more intuitive, especially when you only have a few.
The workaround I’ve been using: on the product page in admin, scroll down to the variants section and click the “Edit” link next to the option name (like Size or Color). That opens inline editing for price, inventory, SKU without having to search for anything. Not as clean as the old way but faster than searching every time.
For photos specifically, the bulk editor actually works decent if you filter by the product first. Go to Products > select the product > More Actions > Open bulk editor. You can see all variants at once and drag photos in.
The search-to-edit flow really only makes sense when you have 50+ variants with multiple option combinations. For stores with 2-3 variants per product it’s genuinely slower. Worth leaving feedback through the admin’s “Give feedback” button too. Shopify does read those, especially when the same complaint comes from a lot of merchants.
How many variants do your products usually have?
It doesn’t matter how dumb a move the admin-UI team makes,
It’s a SASS product for 5 MILLION MERCHANTS , it ain’t about you , SMB or small inventories, etc
If you don’t like the admin changes don’t work in the admin it will ALWAYS be a shifting surface.
If you’re dependent on what X-platform doesn’t do or does your not yet a real business.
Build your actual business,
Otherwise your just training yourself to have to accept whatever a billion dollar company decides to put in the bowl in front of you.
Don’t be frustrated or even bother to reply to this post.
Just go and actually invest in your business with proper processes , not walled gardens. where any brick changing ruins your day.
/smh
Use spreadsheets they are incredibly reliable and amazingly customizable for specific business needs.
QED.
Gee you’re a fun guy aren’t you?!
Thanks very much for your help Lumine. Products have 2-3 variants.
This is an entrepreneurial space, not child care or an art center or a frat party.
Merchants here have serious issues that can make or break their entire life ruining ALL the fun.
I get paid to be effective and make merchants money , not tell them what they want to hear like a chatbot.
Making merchants lose money by telling them what they want to hear isn’t very fun or funny.
Put another way fun is a premium fee predicated on having enough profit to afford it and the delayed gratification.