Bulk edit and export products

Once your catalogue grows, editing products one at a time gets slow. Sellerlane gives you two tools for managing products at scale: a spreadsheet-style bulk editor where you change prices, status, inventory and more across many products in one grid, and a CSV export that turns any selection of products into a downloadable file.

Caution

Sellerlane does not import products from a CSV file. There is no “upload CSV” or “import products” feature anywhere in the admin. To create products you use the guided wizard (see Add products) — CSV is for exporting and reviewing, not for creating. The rest of this page covers what genuinely exists: bulk editing and CSV export.

Find and select products first

Both tools start from the product list at Products in the store sidebar. The toolbar above the list lets you narrow the catalogue down before you act on it.

• The status tabs at the top of the list switch between product states.
• The search box filters by product name.
• Filters opens a row of facets: Product Type, Stock (all / in stock / out of stock), Category, Brand, Tags, User Type, and Sales Channels (Online / POS). Active filters show as removable chips, and Clear all resets them.
• Sort reorders the list.

Tick the checkbox on each product row to build a selection. When at least one product is selected, a dark action bar appears with the bulk actions. The bar notes that your selection applies to this page — selection does not carry across pages of the list, so set your page filters first.

Note

The selected-product actions are Bulk edit, Google edit (product or variant fields), Export CSV, Copy IDs, and Delete. On narrow screens these collapse into an Actions menu.

Bulk edit in the grid

Bulk edit opens a full-screen, spreadsheet-style grid where each cell is directly editable. You can reach it two ways:

1. For a chosen set — select products in the list, then choose Bulk edit from the action bar. The editor opens locked to exactly those products, with the header showing the count of selected products.

2. For the whole store — open Bulk edit without a selection. The editor loads products from your store, and you can use its own search box and the rows selector (25, 50, or 100 rows) plus Apply to control what loads.

What you can change

Each row is a product, and ticking Show variants expands variant rows beneath each product so per-variant fields become editable. Columns are grouped, and you choose which are visible from the Columns menu. The groups are:

Group	Example fields you can edit inline
General	Product title, variant title, description, tags, product category, product type, vendor
Publishing	Status (Draft / Active / Scheduled), Online and POS sales channels
Pricing	Price, sale price, MSRP, cost, bulk pricing tiers
Inventory	Quantity, track quantity, backorder allowed, safety stock
Shipping	Weight, country of origin, HS code
SEO	Meta title, meta description, URL handle
Metafields & Category metafields	Your defined product metafields

There is also a Sellerlane column group — but it shows read-only summaries of digital delivery, event booking, bundle components and product modifiers, not editable fields. To change those, open the product in the full editor.

Note

A few columns are intentionally read-only in the grid and show a summary instead — product and variant media, the system product kind (Physical, Digital, Gift card, Event, Bundle), and the Sellerlane group above. Changing the product kind can change which fields are required, so it stays in the full product editor. Open a product directly to upload images or reorder the gallery.

Save your changes

Edited cells are tracked as you go. The Save changes button stays disabled until you have unsaved edits, then enables so you can write them all in one go.

1. Edit cells across as many rows as you need. There is no per-row save — changes accumulate.

2. Click Save changes. Sellerlane saves product by product.

3. On success you see a “Bulk edit saved” confirmation with the number of products updated, and the grid reloads with fresh data.

4. If some products fail validation, the rest still save. A warning lists the first few failures, and only the failed products stay marked as unsaved so you can fix and retry them.

Tip

Use Reload to discard all unsaved edits and pull fresh data from the server — Sellerlane asks you to confirm before throwing away changes. The back arrow returns you to the product list.

Google fields

The Google edit action (and the Product fields / Variant fields toggle inside the editor) opens the same grid pre-filtered to the columns that matter for Google Shopping and Merchant Center feeds — identifiers like GTIN and MPN, the mapped Google category, images, price and description. A readiness panel flags products that are missing required listing data. See Pixels and tracking and Search and discovery for how this data is used.

Export selected products to CSV

Export turns your current selection into a downloadable spreadsheet — handy for reporting, sharing a price list, or reconciling stock outside the admin.

1. In the product list, select the products you want. Export works on your selection, so use the filters and status tabs to scope it first.

2. Choose Export CSV from the action bar (or the Actions menu on mobile).

3. Your browser downloads a file named products-selected-YYYY-MM-DD.csv for the current date. You will see a “Selected products exported” confirmation.

If you click Export CSV with nothing selected, Sellerlane prompts you to Select products to export rather than exporting the whole catalogue.

What’s in the file

The export is a flat, one-row-per-product file with these columns:

Column	Contents
ID	The internal product ID
Name	Product name
Type	Product type (Physical, Digital, Gift card, Event, Bundle)
Status	Draft, Active, or Scheduled
SKU	The product SKU, or each variant SKU joined together
Brand	Vendor / brand name
Category	Product category
User type	Your custom product type
Price	The price range across variants, in your store currency
Inventory	Total tracked inventory count
Online	Yes / No — whether the online store channel is enabled
POS	Yes / No — whether point of sale is enabled
Updated at	Last-modified timestamp

Note

This export is a summary snapshot, not a re-importable backup. Because there is no CSV import, editing the file and uploading it does nothing — use it for review, sharing, and analysis. To make changes, come back to Bulk edit or the product editor.

Creating products at scale (without import)

Since you can’t import a CSV, build your catalogue with these instead:

• The product wizard — the standard way to add each product. See Add products.
• Bulk edit after creation — create the products, then fix prices, status, inventory and SEO across all of them at once in the grid.
• Scheduling and status — stage products as drafts or scheduled, then flip many to Active together in bulk edit. See Product status and scheduling.

Troubleshooting

• “Select products to export” — you clicked Export CSV with no rows selected. Tick at least one product first.
• Bulk-edit changes won’t save / Save changes is greyed out — the button only enables when there are unsaved edits. If a save partly fails, only the failed products stay dirty; read the warning, fix those cells, and save again.
• My selection disappeared — selection applies to the current page of the list. Apply filters to bring the products you want onto one view before selecting.
• I edited the exported CSV and nothing changed — there is no CSV import. Re-importing is not supported; make changes in the admin.

Next steps

Add products

Build products with the guided wizard. Open the guide.

Status and scheduling

Stage drafts and schedule go-live dates. Learn more.

Locations and inventory

Track stock across locations. Set up inventory.

Collections

Group products for storefront browsing. Build collections.