Managing Shopify Metafields might be a daunting task if you don't have the right knowledge and tools for that.
This presentation will explain what are Shopify Metafields, and how to manage them more effectively.
2. What are Shopify Metafields?
• You can add custom fields for Shopify items
to store additional data
• Those custom fields are called “Metafields”
• Each item can have up to 50 Metafields
• Metafields can be assigned to:
• Products
• Collections
• Customers
• Orders
• Pages
• …
4. How those Metafields look like?
• You can’t normally see Metafields in Shopify Admin
• You can access them with apps, and a little-bit with Shopify Admin
Bulk Editor
• You can edit the “specs.range” Metafield for Products:
https://shopify.com/admin/bulk?resource_name=Product&edit=metafields.specs.range
5. Where can I use Metafields?
• Store additional details for your items
• Show Metafields on your online store as separate elements
• Use those fields as a database for your needs
6. Examples of Metafields
• Save the wholesale Price of an item to calculate your profit
• Store the packaging information for each product and show it on
website
• Shopify data that is already stored in Metafields:
• Product SEO Title and SEO Descriptions
• Product Image Alt Text
• Google Shopping additional fields
7. Metafield Name
• Metafield name consists of the two parts
• Namespace
• Namespace is like the group, where the field belongs.
• By default all Metafields are saved in ”global” namespace.
• But you can assign your own namespaces for grouping Metafields together.
• Maximum length of namespace name is 20 characters
• Example of the namespace: “specs”
• Key
• Key is the name of your Metafield
• Key name must be at least 3 characters long, and not longer than 30 characters
• Example of the key: “range”
specs.range
8. What data can be saved as Metafields?
Text
• Maximum size:
65’535
characters
• Allows Unicode (international
text encoding)
• Example: This is additional tēxt
Number
• Maximum size:
15
digits
• Negative, 0 or positive
• Example: 1234567
9. How to edit Metafields in bulk?
• To edit Metafields, you can export them with Excelify.io app
• They will be visible in Excel file as additional columns for your items
• You can import updated or new Metafields with the same app
10. • Generally about Shopify Metafields
• How to show Metafields in your Shopify online store Theme?
• How to import and export Metafields with Excel?
Install the Excelify.io app to your Shopify store