How to schedule bulk product updates for specific times
Most stores have to manually execute weekly sales and drops at midnight because standard tools lack time-based scheduling. Other apps that do offer scheduling force the exact same change across every single item, preventing store owners from applying tailored bulk edits to different products at once.
What people tried
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- 1Manually editing products at midnight for salesDid this help you?
- 2Using paid apps like Hextom: Bulk Product EditDid this help you?
- 3Trying other third-party scheduling appsDid this help you?
- 4Tagging products with a specific week or drop identifier and manually updating collection conditions at the release timeDid this help you?
- 5Creating a separate collection handle and renaming it to the active drop handle on the scheduled dateDid this help you?
- 6Creating custom workbooks to validate MRP resultsDid this help you?
- 7Manually opening each planned order individuallyDid this help you?
- 8Using the planning workbench's Mass release orders functionDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“How do people implement such things as Weekly drops at certain time?”source ↗
“How you do this? (if you do)”source ↗
“Our store runs constant sales (generally every week at midnight). We bulk edit our products to change pricing, titles and metafields at midnight to show off the sale. But this is all done manually on our end.”source ↗
“Is there a way to schedule a save or bulk edit to happen at a specific time?”source ↗
“I have tried other apps that allow you to schedule a bulk edit, but those force you to make the same change to all products in your bulk edit.”source ↗
“My issue is that I’m unable to mass update (ie. change status from planned to released, change start dates, manually inflate order quantities, or modify any custom attributes) via a bulk update or csv import as Netsuite doesn’t recognize planned orders as a record type.”source ↗
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