Shopify Admin Bulk Price Adjustment

Purpose

Applies a percentage or fixed price adjustment to every variant across a Shopify collection or tag in a single automated workflow — without manually navigating products in the admin UI, exporting CSVs, editing them, and re-importing. Use this skill when you need to run a storewide or collection-level sale, revert prices after a promotion ends, pass through a supplier cost increase, or align pricing across a segment of products.

Prerequisites

• Authenticated Shopify CLI session: shopify auth login --store <domain>
• API scopes: read_products, write_products

Parameters

*One of collection_id or tag is required.

Safety

⚠️ Step 2 executes productVariantsBulkUpdate mutations that change live prices immediately. Price changes cannot be undone in bulk via API — each variant must be reverted individually. Always run with dry_run: true first to review the full change set before committing. Verify the CSV output from dry_run against your expected results before proceeding.

Workflow Steps

1. OPERATION: products — query Inputs: first: 250, query: "collection_id:'<id>'" or query: "tag:'<tag>'", pagination cursor Expected output: List of products with all variant IDs, current prices, SKUs; paginate until hasNextPage: false

2. OPERATION: productVariantsBulkUpdate — mutation Inputs: For each product: productId + array of {id, price} with computed new prices (respecting min_price/max_price constraints) Expected output: Updated price per variant, userErrors array; collect all errors across batches

GraphQL Operations

# products:query — validated against api_version 2025-01
query ProductsForPriceAdjustment($first: Int!, $after: String, $query: String) {
  products(first: $first, after: $after, query: $query) {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        title
        tags
        variants(first: 100) {
          edges {
            node {
              id
              title
              price
              compareAtPrice
              sku
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
    pageInfo {
      hasNextPage
      endCursor
    }
  }
}

# productVariantsBulkUpdate:mutation — validated against api_version 2025-01
mutation ProductVariantsBulkUpdate($productId: ID!, $variants: [ProductVariantsBulkInput!]!) {
  productVariantsBulkUpdate(productId: $productId, variants: $variants) {
    productVariants {
      id
      price
      compareAtPrice
    }
    userErrors {
      field
      message
    }
  }
}

Session Tracking

Claude MUST emit the following output at each stage. This is mandatory.

On start, emit:

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  SKILL: bulk-price-adjustment                ║
║  Store: <store domain>                       ║
║  Started: <YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC>             ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════╝

After each step, emit:

[N/TOTAL] <QUERY|MUTATION>  <OperationName>
          → Params: <brief summary of key inputs>
          → Result: <count or outcome, e.g., "143 records returned">

If dry_run: true, prefix every mutation step with [DRY RUN] and do not execute it.

On completion, emit:

For format: human (default):

══════════════════════════════════════════════
OUTCOME SUMMARY
  <Metric label>:   <value>
  ...
  Errors:           <count, 0 if none>
  Output:           <filename or "none">
══════════════════════════════════════════════

For format: json, emit a JSON object with this schema:

{
  "skill": "bulk-price-adjustment",
  "store": "<domain>",
  "started_at": "<ISO8601>",
  "completed_at": "<ISO8601>",
  "dry_run": false,
  "steps": [
    {
      "step": 1,
      "operation": "<OperationName>",
      "type": "query|mutation",
      "params_summary": "<string>",
      "result_summary": "<string>",
      "skipped": false
    }
  ],
  "outcome": {
    "<metric_key>": "<value>",
    "errors": 0,
    "output_file": "<filename|null>"
  }
}

Output Format

CSV file price_changes_<YYYY-MM-DD>.csv with columns: product_id, variant_id, sku, title, old_price, new_price. For dry_run, the CSV is still generated but no mutations are executed.

Error Handling

Best Practices

1. Always run dry_run: true first — review the CSV to confirm prices before committing. There is no bulk undo.
2. Set min_price to your cost floor to prevent pricing variants below cost during percentage discounts.
3. For collections with more than 250 products, the skill paginates automatically — the CSV will contain all variants regardless of page count.
4. Use adjustment_type: percent with a negative value for sales (e.g., -15 for 15% off). Use adjustment_type: fixed for flat adjustments (e.g., -5 to drop every variant by $5).
5. After committing, verify a sample of prices in the Shopify admin before announcing a sale — userErrors are logged but do not halt execution.