As your online store grows, it is very important to use professional tools for adding, editing, and managing a large number of products. The most challenging problem that the store managers of big online shops need to face is bulk editing products and their features. To help them overcome this challenge, we made a big update on the WooCommerce products bulk edit plugin to support large-scale online shops.
Continue reading to explore what is the problem of bulk editing products in massive online stores and how the new version of our plugin solved this issue, efficiently.
What are the challenges of bulk editing products in large scale online shops?
If you have already tried to bulk edit hundreds of thousands of products in your big online shops, you definitely encounter the following issues:
Unfinished data processing or time-out errors
Time-out errors are the most annoying challenges that occur during the bulk edit action of Big e-commerce stores. The result is an interruption in the bulk editing process which means some required data remain unchanged and managers need to find those products and bulk edit them again.
Time-consuming process with no access to another part of WordPress
Another problem is the long time that takes to finish the bulk editing process in massive online shops. The worst thing is that store managers need to wait whole the time during the bulk edit process to have access to other sections of WordPress.
We recently came up with an idea to solve all of these problems and make the bulk change process more enjoyable and error-free for store managers of big online shops. Let’s learn more about the big update of the WooCommerce bulk edit products plugin to support large scale online shops.
How does the big update of our plugin solve problems to support large scale online shops?
Our developer team worked hard to find the best solution for solving both problems. Fortunately, they could apply a big update to support large scale online shops with the following features:
Dividing big data into separate categories and sending them for bulk editing one by one in a queue
The first solution applied in the big update of the WooCommerce bulk edit products plugin was dividing a large number of products into categories each one containing one hundred products then sending the categorized data for processing in a queue for bulk editing, respectively.
In this way, the plugin can bulk edit the categories in a queue one by one until the process of all categories is finished. The result of implementing this feature is solving the time-out error problem.
Perform the bulk edit process in the background
The second solution that our developers came up with was manipulating the code of our plugin to perform the bulk editing process in the background.
So, even if there are thousands of products for bulk editing, managers can work with other tools and plugins in the WordPress dashboard, simultaneously.
This new feature can save a lot of time because store managers are now able to do other tasks during the bulk edit process.
How to use new features of WooCommerce products bulk editing plugin for managing large scale online shops?
If you have installed and activated the latest version of the WooCommerce products bulk edit plugin, follow the below instructions to activate the new feature:
- Go to the plugin Setting page.
- Set Enable Background Processing to Yes.
- Click on the Save Changes button.
By activating this feature, the plugin will automatically recognize the situation where the big data process should perform in the background.
For example, if you request to bulk edit less than 1000 products, the bulk editing process will be done as usual. However, if you want to apply bulk edit action on more than 10,000 products, the plugin will divide them into some categories including 100 products then make a queue from those categories and apply the changes on each one in the background.
This process guarantees that the users won’t see any time-out errors or other interruptions during bulk edit action.
When the bulk edit action is running in the background, the users have no access to the tools and options of the WooCommerce products bulk editing plugin however there is a force stop button designed on the page to let them stop the process at any time.
Once, you have decided to stop the process, you can also use the undo tool in the plugin to reverse all changes that have been made during the process.
WooCommerce Products Bulk Edit Plugin
The easy way to manage large scale online WooCommerce shops
Case study 1: Bulk increase all product prices by 20% in a big WooCommerce store
Let’s suppose that you have more than 10,000 products in your large scale online shops and you want to use bulk edit action to increase their prices by 20% at once.
To make this happen, follow the below instructions:
- Select all products in the table.
- Open the Bulk Edit form and go to the Pricing tab.
- Choose Increase by % from the list of operators in front of the Regular Price field.
- Enter 20 on the next text box.
- Click on the Do Bulk Edit button.
As illustrated below, the plugin will start the bulk edit process in the background:
After a few minutes, when all product prices have been updated, you can see the result in the product table:
Case study 2: Bulk Edit categories of 10,000 products at once
Let’s see how the big update of WooCommerce products bulk editing plugin is helpful to support large scale online shops when users need to append a new category to more than 10,000 products:
- Filter and Select uncategorized products in the table.
- Open the Bulk Edit form and locate the Product Categories field.
- Choose Append from the Operator dropdown list.
- Select Decor from the list of categories.
- Press the Do Bulk Edit button to let the plugin start the process in the background.
- Go to other sections of the WordPress admin panel like WooCommerce if you need.
- When the process is finished, you can come back and see all the product categories have been updated successfully.
WooCommerce Products Bulk Edit Plugin
The easy way to manage large scale online WooCommerce shops
Conclusion
The big update of WooCommerce products bulk edit plugin developed to support large scale online shops, allows store managers to bulk edit hundreds or thousands of products efficiently. By performing the bulk edit action in the background, this new update prevents the time-out error from interrupting the process. It is also designed to let the users work with another part of WordPress during the big data process.
