Bulk Product Operations

Bulk Product Operations adds 37 one-click actions to your product grid’s Actions menu — select products, pick an operation, and apply it to all of them at once. Change status and visibility, reprice (fixed / percentage / cost-based), manage categories and related products, copy images and options between products, find-and-replace text in descriptions, move inventory, and more. Every run is recorded in an audit history, and the whole engine is available headless over GraphQL.

Compatibility

Magento

Open Source 2.4.9 GA (and later 2.4.x).

PHP

Tested on 8.4 and 8.5.

Where

Product grid Actions menu and GraphQL.

Audit

Every run is logged (command, count, status, user, time).

The operations

Status & attributes

Change Status · Change Visibility · Change Attribute Set · Update Attributes · Append / Replace text (find-and-replace in name/description).

Pricing

Update Price · Update All Prices · Update Advanced Prices · Update Cost · Update Special Price · Modify Price using Cost · Modify Special using Cost / Price. Each supports set / increase / decrease and fixed or percentage, with configurable rounding.

Categories

Assign · Remove · Replace · Update Category — add to, take out of, or swap a product’s category assignments in bulk.

Related products

Add / Remove / Copy Related, Up-sell and Cross-sell links — including copying a source product’s links onto the whole selection.

Media & options

Copy / Remove Images · Copy / Remove custom Options — clone a reference product’s gallery or option set across many products.

Inventory & delete

Assign / Unassign Inventory Source · Transfer Inventory (MSI) · Delete · Fast Delete (direct, high-volume deletion).

How to run

1. Go to Catalog → Products (or Catalog → Bulk Product Operations → Run Actions).

2. Select the products (filter first to target exactly the set you want).

3. Open the Actions dropdown and choose an operation; enter any parameters it needs (e.g. the new price, the category, the text to replace).

4. Apply. The result and a per-run entry land in the history.

Big selections, safely

Operations run inline from the product grid. Over GraphQL, the API accepts up to 5,000 product IDs per call, so larger sets are batched across calls. Bulk deletions above a configurable threshold prompt for confirmation, and there is no undo — so filter to the exact set first, and try a risky change on a small selection before running it across the catalogue.

Headless / API

The same engine is fully scriptable over GraphQL — ideal for PIM syncs and CI jobs:

# List the available operations
{ massActionCommands { code label } }

# Execute one (admin token required)
mutation {
  executeMassAction(
    command: "update_price"
    product_ids: [101, 102, 103]
    parameters: "{\"value\": 10, \"type\": \"percent\", \"action\": \"increase\"}"
  ) { success processed_count error_count message history_id }
}

# Review what's been run
{ massActionHistory(pageSize: 20) {
    items { command_label product_count status admin_user created_at } total_count } }

Admin-only

executeMassAction (and the commands/history queries) require an admin token and throw an authorization error otherwise — and operations are grouped under seven ACL resources (Execute, Update Prices, Manage Categories, Manage Product Relations, Copy Attributes, Fast Delete and Text Replacement), each separately grantable, so you give each role exactly what it may do.

FAQ

Do bulk status/visibility changes actually apply everywhere?

Yes — status and visibility are written at the default scope so the change takes effect across the store (using Magento’s native bulk-attribute update under the hood, which is also much faster than saving each product individually).

Can I increase prices by a percentage, or from cost?

Yes — the price operations support set / increase / decrease, fixed or percentage, and cost-based modes (e.g. “set price to cost + 40%”), with a configurable rounding rule.

What’s “Fast Delete”?

A high-volume deletion path for clearing large product sets quickly. It’s behind its own ACL resource (fast_delete) so only authorised roles can run it, and bulk deletions above a configurable threshold prompt for confirmation first.

Is there an audit trail?

Yes — every execution records the command, product count, status, the admin user and timestamps, viewable in the admin and over the massActionHistory GraphQL query.

Is it secure?

Operations are grouped under seven separate ACL resources, each grantable per role; the GraphQL mutation requires an admin token, accepts up to 5,000 product IDs per call, and size-limits and JSON-validates its parameter payload. Verified clean on PHP 8.4 and 8.5.