Shopify Bulk Editor safe bulk-edit loop

The operational loop that keeps high-impact Shopify catalog edits reviewable: merchants narrow a product or variant scope, choose one action, preview impact, run the job in a throttled queue, inspect job history, and roll back supported changes with stored before-values.

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Shopify Bulk Editor App

Shopify Bulk Editor App is a Shopify embedded app for merchants and catalog operators who need to edit products and variants in controlled batches. The source repo represents the xyppy.com Bulk Product Editor / BPE app: a Remix + Shopify App Bridge + Polaris application with Prisma-backed job history, Shopify Admin GraphQL mutations, merchant help docs, billing/usage gating, and Render deployment definitions for BPE and BPE-preview.

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Shopify Bulk Editor safe bulk-edit loop

8 steps

Merchant narrows the candidate products with AND, OR, NOT, product fields, variant fields, collections, vendors, product types, or metafields
action
Merchant chooses one high-impact bulk action such as price, tags, metafields, title, status, SKU, barcode, collections, or variant management
decision
Preview count, matching products, and before-after changes so edge cases can be caught before mutation
action
Human merchant reviews the sampled impact and confirms the scope before creating the background job
decision
The app creates a BulkEditJob and runs it in a controlled queue that respects Shopify API limits and plan concurrency
subprocess
Server helpers execute Shopify Admin GraphQL mutations and record per-row logs, warnings, and before-values where supported
subprocess
Merchant inspects Job History for queued, running, completed, warning, failed, duplicate, or rollback state
action
If needed, rollback replays stored before-values; unsupported or expired cases fall back to CSV/manual recovery evidence
decision