How can I bulk update to release orders on hold?

[eschouwenburg]

Hi Team! I used a workflow to put orders on hold while our inventory is sold out. We did this because we needed a way to transmit subscription orders. LONG STORY. Anywho, we now find ourselves in a position to have to manually release each individual order. 

Does anyone have experience with taking orders off hold via a bulk update? TIA

[kibbles]

We have the same issue! Would love to learn if there is a way to bulk update.

[laurenlabucq]

Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm in the same position now!

[eschouwenburg]

Unfortunately, no. There was no way to do this - we did it manually over the course of about 4 hours. LOL not great but it was a bonding experience. 

[HKUK]

We have the same issue. Is there a bulk unhold app?

[majikpaul]

Adding my name to the list. When customers pre-order a product and we're waiting for inventory to arrive, I want to be able to put hundreds of orders on hold, and then take hundreds of orders off hold and fulfil them when the inventory is in.

Doing hundreds, but one at a time, is impractical.

[stepheng1]

Adding my 2 cents here and vote for Shopify to add hold to the list of bulk actions on Orders.  The hold is great for preorders or out of stock inventory but without bulk actions it is really not useful much unless there is some issue with a single order.

[kimelyse]

@Shopify surely this is an easy fix in bulk edit?? I have been using this feature for an item that is pre-ordered but the unfulfilled orders were cluttering my orders page. I am now facing hours and hours of doing this manually when the stock arrives!!

[databend]

Need this feature still... desperately! A literal no brainer that this is needed...

[ArcaneBS]

Also looking for this feature two years later!