How to Edit Shopify Products in a Spreadsheet

Most store owners think in spreadsheets. You want to see your products in rows and columns, click a cell, change the value, and move on. But Shopify's product admin is built one-product-per-page — open the product, scroll, edit, save, go back, repeat. And the usual "spreadsheet" workaround means exporting a CSV, editing it, and re-importing it, hoping nothing breaks in the round trip.

There's a simpler option: a real spreadsheet view, built right into your store's admin.

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Why the usual options are frustrating

The native product page is one product at a time — fine for one edit, exhausting for twenty.
The CSV round-trip works, but it's clunky: export, open in Excel, edit, save in the right format, re-import, and find out afterward if anything went wrong.

Neither lets you just sit in a grid and edit.

The fix: BulkEditly's inline spreadsheet editor

BulkEditly includes a spreadsheet-style editor right inside the app. Your products appear in a grid, and you click any cell to change it — title, price, status, tags and more — directly, no file export required. It's the fastest way to make a handful of varied edits across different products, and the spreadsheet editor is available even on the free plan.

How to use the spreadsheet editor

Install BulkEditly from the Shopify App Store (there's a free plan) and open it from your admin.
Go to the Spreadsheet section — your products load into an editable grid.
Click any cell — product title, price, status, or tags (vendor and more are editable on paid plans).
Type the new value and move to the next cell. Changes save as you go.
Use filters and search to narrow the grid to the products you're working on.

No CSV files, no import step, no format errors — just edit and move on.

Common scenarios

Tidy up vendor names: Fix inconsistent vendor spellings across a dozen products without opening each one.
Quick price tweaks: Adjust a handful of prices that don't follow a single rule.
Flip statuses: Set a few products to draft or active directly in the grid.
Small tag fixes: Adjust tags on specific products as you spot them.
Spot-edit while you review: Scan your catalog in the grid and fix things the moment you see them.

Staying safe — and when to use Bulk Edit

Every change you make in the grid is recorded in History, so a spreadsheet edit can be undone like any other BulkEditly edit — your hands-on edits are just as reversible as everything else in the app.

The spreadsheet editor is built for quick, varied, cell-by-cell edits. When you need to apply the same structured change across hundreds of products — raise every price 10%, add a tag to a whole collection — use BulkEditly's Bulk Edit tool instead. It runs the change in one action and shows a full before/after preview first. Two tools, two jobs: the grid for hands-on edits, Bulk Edit for sweeping changes.

FAQ

Can I edit Shopify products in a spreadsheet view? Yes — BulkEditly includes an inline spreadsheet editor where you click any cell to edit product title, vendor, price, status or tags directly in a grid.

Do I need to export and import a CSV? No. The spreadsheet editor edits your products live in a grid — no file export or import involved. (BulkEditly does also support CSV import/export separately, if you prefer that workflow.)

Is the spreadsheet editor available on the free plan? Yes — the spreadsheet editor is included on the free plan for editing core fields like title, price, status and tags.

What fields can I edit in the grid? Title, price, status and tags on the free plan; vendor and more on paid plans — all editable directly per cell.

Can I undo a change made in the spreadsheet editor? Yes — every grid change is recorded in History and can be reversed, like any other BulkEditly edit.

What if I need the same change across hundreds of products? Use BulkEditly's Bulk Edit tool — it applies one structured change across your filtered catalog, with preview and one-click undo.

Ready to edit your products like a spreadsheet? Install BulkEditly free on the Shopify App Store →