I’m setting up a store selling art prints that have
multiple canvas/paper types, and ten different print sizes for 200 photos.
All prices on all sizes with specified canvas-type are
the same from image to image, but they have to be entered one at a time
on the variations drop-down admin. That means thousands of entries if it
has to be done for each variation on each product. And then if there’s a
price increase, thousands of edits instead of just a few dozen.
The “Bulk Editing” feature for variations changes all the prices of ALL the variations.
(That is, if you “Bulk Edit” the price, all variations– small, medium,
large — end up with the same price.)
If you’re managing any real number of products with multiple variations and prices
that need to be changed, this is a real shortcoming of woocommerce.
Is there a way to batch edit variations for multiple products, or create a product template that would have the same variations for prices with different sizes?
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The only solution I’ve found for mass updating variations that all have different prices is to get an extension / plug in that allows you to export the data to a spreadsheet file format, then make the desired changes to the file using a spreadsheet program, and then import the modified spreadsheet. The Woo Commerce team sells such a plugin, but the price is kind of steep… it’s almost a hundred bucks. If anyone has a cheaper solution, I’m all ears.