Efficiently managing SKUs is crucial for proper inventory management and product identification when selling across different channels (Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc). Adding SKUs manually by going through each product page would take ages if you have a large catalog. With Bulk SKU Generator you can automate your SKU creation process for your new and existing products.
Create multiple rules to set different SKUs for different products and categories using the inbuilt variables like product ID, name, slug, attributes, and more. Option to add new, replace, or set additional SKUs. The detailed features of this extension follow.
<h2>Features List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Create unique SKUs for products and variations</li>
<li>Ability to add new, set additional, or replace existing SKUs</li>
<li>Apply SKUs to specific products, category, and attributes</li>
<li>Create multiple rules to add different SKUs for different products</li>
<li>Customize SKU format by adding custom text anywhere in SKU along with variables,
<ul>
<li>Product id</li>
<li>Product slug</li>
<li>Product name</li>
<li>Parent category name</li>
<li>Child category name</li>
<li>Product tag</li>
<li>SKU number</li>
<li>Product attribute</li>
<li>Product term</li>
<li>Variation name</li>
<li>Variation ID</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ability to set different SKU format for product and variations</li>
<li>Add a certain length for generated SKUs to maintain consistency</li>
<li>Option to automate SKU updates for new products</li>
<li>Customize cronjob interval and view SKUs creation progress</li>
<li>Option to add placeholders for empty variables</li>
<li>Allow customers to search by SKU and automatically include SKUs in order emails</li>
</ul>
<h2>Rule based management</h2>
Create multiple global rules to generate different SKUs for different products. Rule based management offers a better control over how the SKUs should be generated for different types of products.
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<h2>Conditional SKUs</h2>
You can conditionally add SKUs to your products using following rule types,
<ul>
<li>Replace SKUs 
Replace your existing SKU with a new one. If there is no SKU to replace, the extension won’t add a new SKU.</li>
<li>Additional SKUs 
This rule type will assign an additional SKU to products, regardless of whether they already have an SKU or not.</li>
<li>Product with no SKUs 
Add SKUs to products with no SKU only. If the SKU is already present in any of the selected products, the rule will not add an SKU for that product.</li>
</ul>
Apply rule to future products
Automate the SKUs generation for upcoming products added to your store. When this feature is enabled, the extension will generate SKU according to your rule settings.
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<h2>Customize SKU length for consistency</h2>
Define the maximum length for SKUs generation to ensure that your product codes stay within a specific character range. This customization provides flexibility, allowing you to control the length of SKUs according to your store’s preferences.
<h2>Flexible product SKU format options</h2>
The SKU format can be easily personalized by adding any custom text anywhere in the field along with the predefined variables. The variable values are replaced dynamically to generate SKUs that uniquely identify each product and variation, making inventory management more efficient. The pre-defined variables includes,
<ul>
<li>Product id</li>
<li>Product slug (Product URL)</li>
<li>Product name</li>
<li>Parent category name</li>
<li>Child category name</li>
<li>Product tag</li>
<li>SKU number</li>
<li>Product attribute</li>
<li>Product term</li>
<li>Variation name</li>
<li>Variation ID</li>
</ul>
You can add different SKU formats for products and variations as per your business needs.
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<h2>Apply SKUs to all or specific products</h2>
When creating a new rule for SKU generation, you can choose to apply it to all products or specific products. You can specify individual products or select them by their category or attribute.
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<h2>General Options:</h2>
Using the general settings, you can customize following options,
<ul>
<li>Enable search by SKU: Allow your customers to search your catalog by product SKU.</li>
<li>Include SKU in emails: Automatically include SKU number in customer order emails.</li>
<li>Empty variables placeholder: You can skip or add custom placeholders for empty variables while generating SKUs. Leaving these fields empty the extension won’t add anything in the SKUs if the variable values are empty.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Conjob and progress view:</h2>
The extension uses cron jobs to schedule SKU generation in phases to avoid overloading the server. You can customize the cronjob time as per your needs. You can view all active rules that are currently being applied along with the product list where the SKU has been added.
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Bulk SKU Generator

Automatically generate SKUs in bulk for multiple products, including variations. Option to add new or replace existing SKU. Format SKU using multiple variables like product ID, slug, attribute, tag, category, and more.

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<li style="font-weight: 400">Complete freedom to edit product fields for multiple products at the same time.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Increase or decrease the prices of your products by a fixed amount or a percentage at the same time.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Find your products immediately with the help of a variety of filters.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Allow the merchants to enable backorders for their products.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Options for the user to select shipping class, Product Type, Product per page, and Include Variation.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add custom fields.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Merchants can easily edit the product price, product title, regular price, sale price, date, and time.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Separate the search bar to search for an individual product from the product table.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Now you can Reset your settings with just one click on Reset Form.</li>
</ul>
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<blockquote>NOW EDITING PRODUCT FIELDS IS NO MORE TROUBLE. MAKE MASSIVE EDITS TO YOUR PRODUCT FIELDS WITH THE PRODUCT BULK EDITOR FOR WOOCOMMERCE</blockquote>
The Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce allows merchants to bulk edit and bulk delete their product fields in no time. Merchants can make changes to the meta values of multiple products at the same time. Time is a precious commodity when it comes to running a business successfully and efficiently. The Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce saves a lot of time for merchants by saving them the hassle of editing multiple product prices in just a few clicks. With this WooCommerce bulk edit plugin, you get full control over your product fields, and you can add custom fields to make even larger bulk edits.
Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce is a powerful way of updating the products in your online store. It relieves the burden of clicking through multiple pages to make changes. You can edit product descriptions, product prices in bulk, and so on.
<h2>Features of Product Bulk Editor</h2>
<h3>1. Hovering over Product Images displays a Bigger Image</h3>
The Woo Product Bulk Editor has again made the task of the admins/merchants a bit easier. Now the admin can just hover over the image of a particular product to see an enlarged image of the same product. This will help the admins to recognize the product and make no mistakes during the bulk edits.
<h3>2. Reset the Form In Just One Click</h3>
The product bulk editor now provides you with the setting of the “one-click reset form,” so you can reset all settings of the form in just one click. 
<h3>3. Product Search Bar</h3>
The bulk edit plugin for WooCommerce provides users with a separate search bar to find individual products in the product table. 
<h3>4. Undo Bulk Price </h3>
In the WooCommerce edit product, merchants can switch to the previous price whenever they want with just one click on the button Undo Price.
<h3>5. Change Regular Pricing Automatically</h3>
The Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce allows merchants to change regular pricing automatically after the duration is set. Merchants can set the date for the regular price of their product.
<h3>6. Change Pricing During the Sale Period</h3>
The Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce allows merchants to set regular pricing automatically and sale prices for the sale period after the duration is set. Merchants can set the date for the regular price of their product.
<h3>7. Change the Description of Variations and Add Enable/Disable Functionality</h3>
The Product Bulk Editor for the WooCommerce plugin allows merchants to change the description of the variations and products, and you can also add enable/disable functionality for any product.
<h3>8. Easy Filtration of Products</h3>
The Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce allows merchants to easily filter products they want and quickly edit them. Merchants can use the following attributes to filter their products, among many others:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Title</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Description</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">SKU</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Category tags</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Status</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Shipping class</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Product Type</li>
</ul>
<h3>9. Title filters</h3>
Merchants can set product title filters for their products using the following permutations and combinations of values:
<ul>
<li>A title containing or not containing a certain value</li>
<li>A title starting with a certain value</li>
<li>A title ending with a certain value</li>
<li>A title contains certain regular expressions</li>
</ul>
<h3>10. Taxonomies as filters</h3>
The Woo bulk editor allows the merchants to list all the taxonomies as filters. So, as I said, the product bulk editor allows you to select the taxonomies from the plugin and associate them with your products for making edits in a mass way.
<h3>11. Rules for filtering attributes</h3>
This plugin includes rules for editing attributes including:
<ul>
<li>If greater than</li>
<li>If less than</li>
<li>Greater than or equal to</li>
</ul>
These help handle various attributes of products like prices, weight, and stock quantity.
<h3>12. Amend bulk edit tables</h3>
Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce allows merchants to make edits to tables including:
<ul>
<li>Hiding specific columns on a table</li>
<li>Changing single product details on a table</li>
<li>Allowing custom field listings on tables</li>
</ul>
13. Create Attributes From The Dashboard 
The WooCommerce bulk editor allows merchants to create attributes directly from the dashboard. After they click on the “Create Attribute” button, they will be redirected to the page where you can change these attributes easily. These attributes let you define extra product data, such as size or color. You can use these to define your existing products.
<h2>Why should you use the Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce?</h2>
Your time is priceless, and the Bulk editor for WooCommerce plugin totally understands this fact; therefore, it saves you from making multiple clicks to edit your product pages. You can make collective edits to your products, something that is similar to working in a spreadsheet. In the edit table, you can add custom fields for making changes to your products, or you can simply use the default filters such as:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">SKUs</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Product Title</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Product Description</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Prices</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Categories</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Catalog visibility</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Shipping class</li>
</ul>
In short, the motive of this WooCommerce bulk update is to reduce the dozen hours spent by the merchants on editing the product to just a few clicks.
<h2>For More Information:</h2>
Visit <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/product-bulk-editor-for-woocommerce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Product Bulk Editor for WooCommerce Documentation</a> to learn more about the features and working of the plugin. If you need support or have questions, kindly <a href="https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">submit your query</a>.

Product Bulk Editor

Product Bulk Editor provides the fastest and easy way to edit the e-commerce products in bulks in just a single click

Bulk SKU Generator vs Product Bulk Editor