Feature: Schedule and Automate your Edits

Scheduling an edit with Ablestar Bulk Product Editor can be useful in setting up and ending a sale. In this article, we highlight the steps of scheduling your first product edit.

In our example, we will search for a set of products, lower the prices by 10%, and then schedule a recurring edit to start and end the sale at a specific time.

Choose if you prefer the 'In-App Edit' or 'Spreadsheet' method:

1. In-App Edits

Filter Products

From our app dashboard, click the 'In-App Edit' option and your store products will appear.

In this example, we will search for all shoes that include the term "retro" in the product title and that have inventory less than 10:

1. Input any search term and/or click the Add filter button
2. Search and select "Inventory Quantity" from the picklist
3. Specify 'less than' equals (10) and click the Add filter button
4. Click the Search button and your filtered products will appear in the preview
5. Click the Edit products button to continue:

💡Learn more basics on searching and filtering your products. 

Configure Edits 

From the 'Configure modifications' view, we are going to decrease prices on our filtered products by 10%. Specify these fields:

Schedule Edits

Click the Schedule Edits button and a pop up window will appear. In this example we will choose to start the edit but you also have the option to schedule the 'end' edit time if you know when the sale or promotion will end:

1. Select the checkbox to Start or Undo your schedule
2. When the modal appears, select date and time stamp from the calendar picker (Note: the time picker matches your shop's primary timezone)
3. Click the Schedule button and click to Cancel edit at any time if needed
4. Click the 'More actions' option to reschedule, rename or add to favorites:

2. Spreadsheet Edits

From the Ablestar Bulk Editor dashboard, click the 'Edit with a spreadsheet' option.

1. Click to drag or upload your prepped spreadsheet
2. Confirm the mapping detail is correct
3. Click the Schedule edit button and a pop up window will appear
4. Choose to start or end the edit
5. Select date and time stamp from the calendar picker (Note: time picker matches the shop's primary timezone
6. Click the Schedule button and status will update to 'Scheduled'

User can click to Cancel edit at any time if needed.

Learn the best way to prep your spreadsheets in our related article.

History and Modifications

Viewing History

To view scheduled edits: 

1. Click History on the left hand side of the Ablestar Bulk Editor dashboard 
2. Click the 'Scheduled Edits' tab

All scheduled and pending scheduled edits will appear. Edits are listed by start time to make them easy to locate.

Clicking on any row will lead you back to the configuration step to review detail, edit or cancel the schedule:

Modify Schedules

From the History view, click on any row of scheduled edits and return to the configuration view, where you have a few options to choose from:

• Pencil icon: allows you to edit details like start time and end time

• Cancel button
• More Actions dropdown:
  • Clone
  • Schedule edit
  • Rename
  • View configuration
  • Add to favorites

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

• Ensure no changes are made to products that might interfere with parameters set in a scheduled edit, or the product might not be included once the schedule runs.
• Renaming scheduled configurations is a great way to keep track of multiple schedules
• Time and calendar picker for scheduling edits, always matches the shop's primary timezone

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