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How to Find and Replace Text Across Products in Bulk (Product Catalog)

Learn how to search for a specific text value in any product attribute and replace it across multiple products at once using the Find and Replace bulk action.

Written by Karolina Santiago

Overview

The Find and Replace bulk action lets you search for a specific text value in any product attribute and replace it across all selected products in one operation — the same concept as Find & Replace in a word processor, but applied to your entire product catalog.


When to Use This

  • A brand name changed and you need to update it across thousands of titles

  • You want to remove a specific phrase from all descriptions

  • A model number was entered incorrectly and needs to be corrected across many products

  • You want to standardize a specific word or phrase (e.g. replace "colour" with "color")


How to Use It

  1. Go to Products Catalog and select the products you want to update

  2. Click Bulk Actions → Find and Replace

  3. Choose the Attribute to search in (e.g. Title, Description)

  4. Enter the text to Find

  5. Enter the Replacement text

  6. Set your matching options

  7. Choose your Save Option and confirm


Options

  • Match case — Makes the search case-sensitive. "Apple" will not match "apple" when enabled

  • Whole word only — Only matches the exact whole word. Searching "part" won't match "parts" or "partial"

  • Include variations — Also applies the replacement to variation child SKUs


Save Options

  • Save changes to catalog only — Updates only the Catalog. Live listings are not touched.

  • Save changes to catalog and revise linked listings — Updates the Catalog and immediately pushes changes to linked channel listings


Use Case Examples

Example 1: Brand name change

Your supplier rebranded from "AcmeCorp" to "Acme Industries". Select all affected products, find "AcmeCorp" in the Title field, replace with "Acme Industries", and save with revise — all listings update at once.

Example 2: Remove an outdated phrase

All your descriptions contain "Free shipping on orders over £20" — but that offer has ended. Find that phrase in Description and leave the Replace field empty to delete it from all products.

Example 3: Fix a typo at scale

"Refrigeretor" was imported incorrectly across 300 products. Find "Refrigeretor" in the Title, replace with "Refrigerator", and save.

💡 Leave the Replace with field empty to effectively delete the found text from all matching products.

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