How to Find and Replace Text Across Shopify Products

Sometimes the change you need is small and everywhere at once. A brand you stock changed its name. A phone number in your product descriptions is out of date. There's a typo you've now spotted in 200 listings. A discontinued term needs swapping for the new one. The edit itself is trivial — it's the hundreds of places that make it a problem.

Here's how to find and replace text across your whole Shopify catalog.

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Why this is painful the manual way

Your browser's find function works on one page. Shopify has no catalog-wide find and replace. So fixing a repeated word means opening every affected product, locating the text, changing it, saving, and moving on — and hoping you didn't miss any.

The fix: BulkEditly's find & replace

BulkEditly's find & replace works across your catalog. Give it the text to find and the text to replace it with, and it updates every match across product titles, descriptions, tags, and more — in one action.

Find & replace is available on the Starter, Growth, and Pro plans. Every plan includes a 7-day free trial of all features.

How to find and replace with BulkEditly

Install BulkEditly from the Shopify App Store and open it from your admin.
Click Bulk Edit and choose the Find & Replace action.
Enter the text to find and the text to replace it with.
Choose which fields to search — title, description, tags, and more.
Filter if you only want to affect part of your catalog.
Preview — BulkEditly shows every product that will change and what the text will become.
Confirm. The replacements write to Shopify.

Common scenarios

Rebrand a supplier: Replace an old brand name with the new one across every product.
Fix a repeated typo: Correct a misspelling that's in dozens of descriptions.
Update contact details: Change an old phone number or address that appears in product descriptions.
Swap a discontinued term: Replace "CD" with "digital download" across affected listings.
Standardize wording: Make inconsistent phrasing consistent across the catalog.

Staying safe

The preview shows you every single match before anything changes — so you can confirm you're not replacing text you meant to keep. And every find & replace job is recorded in History with one-click undo, with up to 180 days of history depending on your plan.

FAQ

Does Shopify have a find and replace for products? No — Shopify has no catalog-wide find and replace. BulkEditly adds it across titles, descriptions, tags, and more.

Which fields can I search and replace in? Product titles, descriptions, tags, and more — you choose which fields to include.

Can I see what will change before it does? Yes — the preview shows every match and what the text will become before you apply.

Can I undo a find & replace? Yes — every job is recorded in History and can be reversed.

Can I limit it to certain products? Yes — use filters to apply the replacement to only part of your catalog.

Ready to fix that text everywhere at once? Install BulkEditly free on the Shopify App Store →