How to Bulk Edit Attributes in WooCommerce?

We know how painful it is to manually update or assign attributes to hundreds and thousands of products on your WooCommerce store. Hence, in this article, we’ll cover how you can easily add/remove existing and custom attributes to products in WooCommerce in bulk.

First, the difference between attributes and variations in WooCommerce

I had Googled this earlier as it’s confusing. So let me make it simple with an example.

Attributes are characteristics that define a product. While variations are products created based on attributes.

Example – A red-colored, XL size T-shirt is a product variation created based on attributes ‘Color’ and ‘Size’.

You can’t bulk edit attributes using default WooCommerce

As a store owner, what matters to you is speed and time, right?

We know how annoying it is to edit products one-by-one. I don’t want to mention the pain of doing it for thousands of products.

The default WooCommerce allows bulk editing only for simple products. And that too like price, tax, size, weight, etc.

You can’t bulk edit attributes – be it pre-defined product attributes or custom attributes. The filtering option is also not that good.

So with the help of our Smart Manager plugin, you can easily bulk edit attributes – add, remove, overwrite them in no time.

How to bulk edit attributes with Smart Manager plugin in WooCommerce?

Smart Manager provides an Excel-like spreadsheet (sheet editor) to manage your WooCommerce store.

Be it products, orders, coupons, users, any WordPress post type; you can directly make edits.

However, the biggest USP of Smart Manager is the Bulk Edit / Batch Update feature. You can bulk add products, add attributes, add price to products based on attributes, bulk delete variations, bulk edit orders, change prices in bulk and a lot more.

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Let’s see how you can bulk manage and edit attributes in WooCommerce using Smart Manager:

Add or remove attributes in bulk

• Suppose you ordered ten new blue-colored T-shirts. To set attribute for these products in one shot, go to WordPress Admin dashboard > Smart Manager. Select Products from the drop-down on the Navigation Bar at the top.



• Select the required products. If you have more than tens or hundreds of products, use the advanced search to get all these products quickly. Click on Bulk Edit option and it will open up a slide-over panel.



• Select Add attribute > Color > Blue and click on Update as shown in the image above. All these T-shirts will be assigned Blue color.

Similarly, if you have hundreds and thousands of products and one want to add all of them to pre-configured attributes in one go, use the bulk edit functionality mentioned above.

Add custom attributes in bulk

Consider the same example above. But here, all the blue T-shirts are printed with Avengers’ weapons. Using Bulk Edit option as mentioned above, you can add a custom attribute ‘Avengers Print’ for all products at once.

Assign multiple attributes based on a search filters

You are selling a vast range of electronic items and you want to assign attributes only when product category is laptop, belonging to Dell brand, each having a price above $700.

• Go to WordPress Admin dashboard > Smart Manager. Select Products from the drop-down on the Navigation Bar at the top.
• Now click on the Advanced Search toggle. It will open up a slide-over panel. Enter the search conditions as shown in the below image and click on Search.



• Only your required products will be listed. Now, as mentioned earlier, select these products, click on Bulk Edit and enter the conditions as shown in the image below.
• Click on the Update button.

All your required products will be assigned the attributes you wanted to add. Quite easy, right?

Edit product prices based on attribute filters

Smart Manager also allows you to instantly search for products based on attributes and make an edit or update price in bulk. Example – Reduce sale price by 10% of all wrist watches having a square dial and stainless steel belt. Here, dial and belt are attributes.

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There’s a lot more you can do with Smart Manager

• Bulk edit any fields of any post type – products, orders, coupons, posts, subscriptions, bookings, etc.
• Duplicate any post type and make edits to them
• Export CSV based on search, date and column filters
• Add your own logo to packing slips/order printing and also print the same in bulk
• Know the lifetime value (LTV) of all your customers along with their total purchases to date and last order details
• Manage WordPress user roles – change user role, change password, etc.
• Compatibility with top WooCommerce & SEO plugins – Subscriptions, Bookings, Yoast, etc.

and a lot more…

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Conclusion

If you have a WooCommerce store that has dozens of products, Smart Manager is a life-saver.

Not just attributes, but anything you want to manage better and fast – price, orders, coupons… Smart Manager won’t fail you!

Until we come with another post, happy growing!