I am just starting a Shopify store and working on my first product. All my products will be the same regards variants and prices. How do I set this up so in the future I can change the prices of all product variants should I wish to i.e. not have to do it one product at a time? Thanks.
Hi @JayBee1 ,
Thank you for reaching out to the Community! I’m happy to provide some assistance with updating variants, to ensure this gets resolved.
To share some insight, the product CSV file is great for adding and updating products in bulk. It allows you to import or export a large number of products and their details at once to make any necessary changes. For more information on using product CSV files, I recommend checking out our Importing and Exporting Products documentation. You can also refer to our Sample CSV File as a template when importing products back into your shop.
Alternatively, you can check out the Shopify App Store for an available app that may allow you to achieve this. For ease, I’ve gone ahead and made a few app suggestions listed below that you can look into:
I’d also encourage you to get in touch with the app developers directly. They will be able to provide clarification on an app’s capabilities and confirm whether or not the app will fit your shop’s needs. To get in contact with an app developer, you can head to the Shopify App Store and select Support > Send A Message.
Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns.
Hi JayBee1,
Congratulations on starting your Shopify store!
If you want all the prices to be the same, you can do so with a quick in-app edit in our Bulk Product Editor.
If you have a lot of different products to edit, it may be faster to upload a spreadsheet with those edits. It gives you more flexibility to manage other product details as well, such as inventory and variants.
Hey JayBee1,
To set every product to the same price, you’ve got two no-app routes first:
Native bulk editor - Products → check the products you want → Edit products. Add the Price column with “Add fields,” and type the price into each row. It works, but two things to know: it shows products in pages (so a big catalog means a lot of paging), and there’s no “apply this value to all rows,” so you end up typing the same number into every cell.
CSV - Export your products, set the whole Variant Price column to the same value in Excel/Sheets (paste it down the column once), and re-import. This is the fastest free way to make every price identical in one shot, and it’s worth learning since you can do inventory, SKUs, and tags the same way.
If you’d rather not round-trip CSVs, full disclosure I build an app called BulkSheet that’s a spreadsheet-style editor right inside your admin. You’d select the products, set the price once and apply it down the column, preview the change before saving, and undo the whole batch if something looks off. There’s a free tier, so it costs nothing to try on a catalog this size.
Whichever route you pick, the CSV method above will get the job done for free. Happy to walk through the export columns if you go that way.
Adding one angle the replies above didn’t cover — the safety side, since that’s usually where bulk price changes go wrong.
Everyone’s right that CSV export/import is the fastest free way. The catch: Shopify’s native product CSV overwrites every column in the file and treats it as the full source of truth for a product’s variants — so a partial or slightly-off file can wipe variants or fields you didn’t mean to touch. Always test on 1–2 products first, and keep a copy of your original export so you can restore if something goes sideways.
If you’re going to do this regularly (sounds like you will), it’s worth using a tool that previews changes before applying them. Full disclosure, I built one called Pricely — you upload a file, it matches each row to a variant by SKU/barcode, shows you a row-by-row preview of exactly what will change (and skips rows that haven’t), and lets you roll back an import if needed. It only touches the fields you map, so it can’t delete variants the way a native CSV can. There’s a free tier if you want to try it: Pricely - Pricely ‑ Bulk Price Editor & Sale Scheduler | Shopify App Store
Whatever route you pick: match on SKU or barcode (not title), and preview/back up before running the whole catalog.
The built-in bulk editor works but has sharp edges: it times out on large selections, and there is no undo if you fat-finger a column. Safer workflow for bulk repricing. One: do a full product CSV export FIRST, that export is your undo button. Two: for percentage-based changes, edit the exported CSV in a spreadsheet (formula on the Variant Price column), then re-import, but make sure every variant row stays in the file, the importer deletes variants that are missing from a product’s rows. Three: for a few hundred variants, the admin bulk editor is fine, select only the price column to reduce mistakes. Four: test on 3 products before running the full catalog. Disclosure: we built Restory, an app that records every price change with old and new values and can revert them in bulk, exactly because bulk repricing mistakes are so common. But the export-first habit costs nothing and covers you today.