How to Change Shopify Prices in Bulk: Editor, CSV, Markets

Can You Raise Every Shopify Price by a Percentage?

No Shopify bulk editing or product CSV page we read on November 9, 2026 describes a field where you enter a percentage or a formula for base prices. That doesn't mean there's no route. These five are the routes we compared, and they change different things:

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If you only want the tip behind a Smart Pricing suggestion, our answer on what Shopify Smart Pricing is and who gets it covers it. Any price change there is still implemented by you. Outside these five, Smart Pricing's A/B pricing experiments, in early access for select stores on Grow or higher that are based in and sell to the United States and meet its other requirements, such as a single United States catalog, let you set a percentage across products, but as test prices for half your store traffic; if the test does better, you can apply the new prices with a CSV file.

Which Route Fits Your Store?

The verdict above answers by the kind of change. These five questions answer by the combination: what you're changing, how much of the catalog it touches, who can work in a spreadsheet, whether you need a timed start or a revert, and what else in your store depends on the price.

How to Change Prices in the Bulk Editor

The bulk editor is the route when you know the new values. Our bulk editor guide covers the tool for every field; these steps are the price run.

1. Export your current prices first. On Products, filter or search the list, tick what you'll change, click Export, choose Selected, and keep the file untouched. It's your way back if the change goes wrong.

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2. Open the editor. With the same products ticked (tick them again if the list cleared), click Bulk edit in the selection bar. On a first run, start with two or three of them, save and check, then come back for the rest.

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3. Turn on the price columns. Click Columns and, in the Pricing group, select Base price and Compare-at price. That is how the menu read on November 9, 2026; Shopify's help calls the first one price. Cost per item sits in the same group, one more route beside those in our answer on adding cost per item.

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4. Enter the new values, as plain numbers. Don't try a formula or a percentage in a price cell, and don't save if a number looks wrong: what a cell does with them, as of November 9, 2026, is in our test. Before you save, settle any compare-at price the new price will pass (compare-at when prices rise) and note the fixed catalog prices that won't follow (fixed prices stay put).
5. Click Save. If you see "Update the invalid values, then save again", fix the values and save again; Shopify says the more you change at once, the longer the save takes.

Give Many Cells One Price

Shopify's rule is short: when multiple cells are selected, apply any edits to the outlined active cell to update all selected cells. The fill handle, in the corner of the active cell, copies its value across the cells you drag over.

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An empty compare-at price showed as 0.00 in the editor on November 9, 2026, so a row showing 0.00 there isn't a hidden discount.

Selecting More Than 50 Products

Shopify's bulk actions page says to tick the checkbox at the top of the list and click Select all 50+ items, or Select all results from the 50 selected dropdown in a filtered view. With 53 products in our development store on November 9, 2026, the same dropdown read Select all in this store. Take whichever your admin shows.

On a mobile device, you can select up to 25 items at a time.

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Grouped Variant Rows

This trap sits outside the bulk editor and does the same job by accident. Shopify's variants page says that if you adjust the top level listing's price, all variant prices within the group change as well. It also gives the deliberate form: select the topmost checkbox and click Bulk edit to edit all of one product's variants.

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This screen is changing. Shopify's changelog entry of October 29, 2026 adds bulk editing of core fields such as price across several variants on the product page. Merchants on Plus and higher plans can activate it in Test Drives and are opted in automatically on December 12, 2026, and the rollout to all merchants begins gradually in December 2026. As of November 9, 2026, your screen may differ from this one.

How to Raise Prices by a Percentage With a CSV

A spreadsheet does what the bulk editor doesn't: it calculates. Each file can be up to 15 MB, so a larger catalog goes in several. The full tool, including what the export leaves out, is in our guide on when a CSV beats the bulk editor; these steps are the price run.

1. Export your current prices first, as in step one of the bulk editor route, choosing All products if the change covers the whole catalog, and keep one copy untouched as your way back. Work in a second copy.
2. Find your price column. Our export of November 9, 2026 called it Variant Price, column W, with Variant Compare At Price in column X. Shopify's CSV page calls them Price and Compare-at price and warns that older templates name columns differently. Go by the header row of your own export and don't rename it.
3. Calculate in a helper column. In an empty column, enter =IF(W2="","",ROUND(W2*1.1,2)) and copy it down. The IF leaves a row blank when it has no price. If your price column isn't W, use its letter.
4. Paste the results as values over the price column, then delete the helper column.
5. Remove the columns you aren't changing, but keep Handle, Title and every option column, including each Option Linked To column (Shopify's CSV page spells it Option1 LinkedTo; go by your export, and see our test of November 9, 2026). Shopify names URL handle and Title as the only required columns for an update, and then adds the warning below.

6. Save and test. Before you save, settle compare-at in the same file (compare-at when prices rise) and note the fixed catalog prices that won't follow (fixed prices stay put). Save as CSV UTF-8. Import a file with two or three products first, including one with variants, and open them; that test size is our advice, since Shopify gives the instruction to test a small subset to Partners running a large import. Keep all of a product's rows together, in the test file and in any split file, which is our advice too.
7. Import the rest. On Products, click Import, choose the file, tick Overwrite products with matching handles, click Upload file (its label on November 9, 2026; Shopify's help calls it Upload and continue), check the Preview your first product step, then click Import products. Without the tick, products that match an existing handle are ignored.

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If you would rather watch the export and import once, this walkthrough from the Dario channel follows the same route, including compare-at prices. It dates from 2021, so the screens and column names are older than ours, and it's one creator's method: go by your own export and the steps above.

The Formula and a .99 Ending

Each formula below assumes the price sits in column W, on a $24.52 product. Wrap any of them in the same IF as step three. ROUND and CEILING are documented Excel functions; the .99 line is our own combination, and the Microsoft pages we read on November 9, 2026 give no .99 recipe.

Spreadsheet Traps That Hit Prices

The rule behind blank cells has its own page: our answer on what happens to blank and missing columns goes through it column by column.

If Shopify rejects the file or lists errors, our import error guide matches each message to its fix.

What to Do With Compare-At When Prices Rise

Compare-at is a separate field, so changing the price column alone doesn't touch it. Shopify's rule is that the value must be higher than the price to display the sale price. What to do when a price rises is our advice, case by case:

• No compare-at price on the product. Nothing to do. Leave the column out of your CSV.
• A real sale still running. Set the new compare-at price in the same run, or wait until the sale ends. Otherwise the size of the discount changes without you deciding it.
• An old compare-at price left over. Clear it, because a price rise can leave a discount nobody intended. In the bulk editor, clear the cell; in a CSV, a blank cell in an included column does it. To confirm it's gone, open the product page rather than the editor, which showed a cleared cell as 0.00 in our test on November 9, 2026.
• Prices in market catalogs. A catalog's percentage also applies to compare-at prices by default, and the Include compare-at price switch turns that off.

For what the field does and doesn't do, see what compare-at price is and why it may not show.

To set a different one per market, see compare-at prices by market.

What Moves When the Base Price Moves?

Most surprises come from assuming a price lives in one place. Take the example from Shopify's B2B catalog page: a 40% decrease changes a $100 base price to $60. Raise that base by 10% to $110, and the same formula gives $66. A fixed price for that product stays exactly where you set it. The $110 and $66 are our arithmetic on Shopify's formula, for illustration.

Market Catalogs With a Percentage

To change one market without touching the base, go to Markets > Catalogs, open the catalog and enter a percentage in Price adjustment. Rounding, where it's on, is applied after currency conversion and any price adjustments.

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To see the outcome, open Products, click View as and pick the market. The list shows prices in that market's currency, and you can click a product's price to view how it's calculated. We tested a base price change against a catalog percentage in one development store: see our test.

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If you hoped rounding would give you .99 endings in a market, look before you plan on it. On November 9, 2026, the Mexico market in our development store offered two options: Round up to the nearest $1.00 MXN and Do not round prices. Shopify's rounding page says rounding rules use the most common denominator for each currency and can't be customized to anything different, and a manual exchange rate changes how the conversion fee works.

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Fixed Prices Stay Put

Shopify's own example: with a 10% decrease on the catalog and a product priced manually at $2.00, the customer pays $2.00.

Our export of November 9, 2026 carried columns such as Price / Mexico and Compare At Price / Mexico, and Shopify says a market has such columns only if exactly one of its active catalogs isn't shared with another market. A catalog's own CSV export includes only products with fixed prices, which makes it a quick list of what won't follow.

B2B Catalogs

B2B catalogs work the same way: fixed prices override any overall adjustment. When several catalogs reach one company location at different prices, the buyer doesn't simply get the newest one, as our answer on which price shows with several catalogs explains, so check those locations after a change.

POS Locations

A retail market can carry its own catalog for specific POS locations, which requires Shopify POS Pro or the Plus plan. The market pages we read on November 9, 2026 don't separately say how a new base price reaches a location, so ring up a test sale at one location before you rely on it.

What a Price Change Leaves Alone

A placed order is the firm case, and Shopify states it outright on its order details page, where the list covers prices and compare-at prices:

A draft order with a quoted price is the one to handle before the run. In the draft, open the menu on the Products card and choose Lock product pricing, which is how the option read on November 9, 2026. If bundles are new to you, our guide on where the free Bundles app stops sets out its other limits.

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Can You Schedule a Bulk Price Change?

Shopify's changelog entry of October 23, 2026 added catalog changes to rollouts, so you can schedule pricing per market. The limit is in one line of the requirements page:

That shapes the method. Edits to a catalog's prices are saved right away, and customers see them whenever the catalog is active for their market, so prepare the new prices in a catalog that isn't active yet.

Then create the rollout on Markets > Rollouts, which on November 9, 2026 was its own page rather than part of the catalog. A catalog can be in only one unended rollout at a time, and you can't apply rollouts to vintage themes. Use a Launch for a change you want to keep; an Event rolls the change back when the rollout ends.

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For base prices, your options are narrower. Launchpad is available only on Shopify Plus and changes prices at the start and end of an event, which fits a sale, not a permanent change. Pricer lists scheduled tasks on its App Store listing, as the vendor's claim, read November 9, 2026. Otherwise, run the import when you want the change to happen.

When Do Google and Other Channels Get the New Price?

You don't re-send anything if the channel is connected and syncing automatically. Shopify's setup page says that after the initial sync, changes to your products typically sync within a few hours. What to watch afterwards:

• Sale prices. For compare-at and sale prices, Google says prices update on Google within 24 hours, with Automatic Product Sync turned on.
• Errors. Shopify warns that changing product information can cause successfully synced products to have errors and warnings, so look at the channel after the run. If you open that page, its 30-day figure is Google's expiry policy for synced data, not a delay on your new price.
• Mismatches. Google compares the price in your data with your landing page, and a product with a mismatch may be disapproved. Time differences between your site and Merchant Center are one cause Google lists.
• Manual sync. If you sync manually, Google says you send the product data to Merchant Center yourself, so the new prices wait for you.

The timing above comes from Shopify's and Google's pages on the Google & YouTube channel only; for any other channel, check its own product status after the run. Channels split on price, too: our guide to traffic-generating and order-generating channels explains which may differ from your online store.

Can You Undo a Bulk Price Change?

Use the undo arrow at the top of the bulk editor only before you click Save; what it did after Save on November 9, 2026 is in our test. This is why the export is step one in both routes. For CSV imports, Shopify puts the stakes in one sentence:

To get the old prices back from your untouched export:

1. Make a copy of the untouched file, and remove every column except Handle, Title, every option column, including each Option Linked To column, and the price columns you changed. Why the Option Linked To columns matter is in our test of November 9, 2026.
2. Import it with Overwrite products with matching handles, on two or three products first.
3. Open the products, then check the rest with View as.

The store activity log, under Settings > General, is a record, not a way back. Shopify says the current, list version of the log shows bulk-edit changes with Shopify as the actor, but in our test that version listed neither our bulk-edit save nor our CSV imports. Our answer on who made changes in Shopify covers what the log shows.

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The CSV restore above puts back the values from export day, so any price you changed on purpose since then goes back too. Each route has its own version of the same limit:

• Sidekick. Shopify says published changes can't be undone automatically. To reverse a change, ask Sidekick to change the values back and publish again, and some changes can't be fully reversed.
• Catalogs. Shopify says a rollout doesn't restore a copy of your catalog from when the rollout started: an Event rolls back the changes it published when it ends, but edits you make to the catalog while it runs stay in place.
• Apps. NA Bulk Price Editor says it lets you revert price change jobs, and Bulk Price Edit lists Automatic Rollbacks on its Pro plan, tied in its description to reverting when a sale ends, with no reviews yet. Both are vendor claims, read November 9, 2026. Export first anyway.

Our own test· November 9, 2026

What Happened in Our Test

Key takeaway

We ran these in one Shopify development store on the Basic plan on November 9, 2026, on test products, and put every price back afterwards.

What we tried, November 9, 2026

What we tried	What came back	What it means for you
Asked Sidekick to raise 3 selected products by 10%	It asked which products we meant. Given their names, it drafted two, $749.95 to $824.95 and $600.00 to $660.00, and reported an internal error on the third. Compare-at prices stayed unchanged	Name the products in your request, count the drafted rows against what you asked for, and handle compare-at separately
Typed =785.95*1.1 into a Base price cell holding 785.95	The cell showed 785,951.10: no calculation, and the digits joined the existing value	Type plain numbers only; never save a table after trying a formula
Typed +10% into a cell holding 785.95, and 10% into one holding 600.00	The cells showed 78,510.95 and 60,010.00	A percent sign doesn't produce a percentage. If this happens, leave without saving
Changed a base price from $12.00 to $20.00 with a catalog set to -5% (Mexico, MXN)	View as Mexico went from 217 MXN to 362 MXN, with currency conversion and rounding included	The catalog price followed the new base. Check it with View as
Set a fixed catalog price of $300 MXN, then changed the base price to $30.00	View as Mexico stayed at $300	Fixed prices need their own update
Imported a price file without the Option1 Linked To column, with Overwrite, on three test products, then restored the old prices from a price-only copy	Prices changed and came back as planned, but the test T-shirt's Color option lost its link to its metafield. The price-only restore didn't bring the link back; adding the column to the file did	Keep every Option Linked To column in any price file you import, including the one you restore from
Changed a base price in the bulk editor and clicked undo before Save, then saved a change and looked at the arrows	Before Save, undo put 785.95 back. After Save, the undo and redo arrows were both greyed out	Undo a bulk edit only before you save; after that, your export is the way back
Cleared a compare-at price in the bulk editor and saved	The cell showed 0.00 before and after Save. The product page and a fresh export showed the field empty, though the first product page we opened after Save showed the old values until we reloaded it	A 0.00 in the editor is an empty compare-at; check the product page, and reload it if the old value shows
Looked for our bulk-edit save and our CSV imports in the store activity log (the list version you can't click or filter)	Neither appeared. The log did list access and catalog price adjustment events from an app we had installed	Don't count on the log to confirm a bulk change ran; open the products instead

Source: our development store, November 9, 2026. Formula and percent-sign cells were left unsaved. Sidekick's draft was discarded, and the catalog, CSV import, undo and compare-at tests were reverted.

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In the Sidekick test we didn't click Publish all changes, so we saw the draft and not the write, and one run on a few products says nothing about a larger set.

The Price Change, Start to Finish

Every route uses the same list; only step four differs. Steps five to eight are the ones a general bulk run leaves out, and the backup and test steps are covered at more length in our safety checklist for any bulk change.

The Bottom Line

Changing the number is the short part of the job. The time goes into what the change reaches, and into having the old values if it goes wrong.

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