Reprice a Shopify catalog as a reviewed batch
A supplier raises costs 8% and thirty-eight variants get new prices under your margin rule, four exceptions flagged before anything changes, and every update waiting on its own approval card.
A supplier cost change lands in your inbox and forty variants need new prices under your margin rule, rounded to your endings, checked against the compare-at price. In the Shopify admin that is open-edit-save per variant, thirty seconds each when focused, so forty SKUs is a solid half hour and two hundred is a lost afternoon.
Shopify is a native integration. A companion lists your products, variants and inventory levels through typed tools, does the price math outside the admin where mistakes are free, then applies changes through updates that are individually consequential: each variant update and inventory adjustment pauses for approval, so the batch is reviewed before it is real.
| Admin, one by one | CSV export-import | A Strawberry companion | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your time | Half an hour of clicking | Spreadsheet work plus a careful import | Review one proposal table |
| Error blast radius | One SKU per mistake | The whole file | One approved change at a time |
| Margin math | In your head | In your formulas | In the proposal, shown per SKU |
| Exceptions | Noticed if you are sharp | Found after import | Flagged before anything changes |
| Inventory adjustments | Another pass of clicking | A second import to get wrong | Staged behind the same approvals |
How does a repricing run work?
In two phases. Read-and-propose: the companion pulls the affected products and variants, applies your rule (cost up 8% on this supplier’s SKUs, hold margin, round to .95, keep compare-at untouched) and produces a proposal table of SKU, current price, new price, margin before and after. Nothing has changed yet.
Apply-with-approvals: each variant update goes through the integration and waits on its card. For a forty-SKU batch you approve as you go, or allow the action for the session after checking the first few. The tool surface is documented on the Shopify integration page.
The supplier cost increase
A kitchenware store gets an 8% cost increase on one supplier’s line: thirty-eight variants across fourteen products. The companion pulls the line, computes new prices under the margin rule, and flags four exceptions: two variants whose new price would cross a psychological threshold ($49.95 to $53.95), and two already discounted below the new floor.
The owner reviews the table over coffee, adjusts the four by hand, and approves the rest. Fifteen minutes, most of it on the four SKUs that deserved thought. The same read-compute-stage shape covers inventory hygiene: which variants show fewer than five units across locations, and set these twelve to the restock quantities in this email, with adjustments equally gated. Triggers for a run live in monitor competitor prices and vendor price checks.
What size catalog is this built for?
Tens to hundreds of SKUs, where price changes are occasional, rule-driven and worth a human glance, which describes most independent stores. Multichannel sellers keep their inventory-management system as the source of truth, and the companion reads and stages against it.
The gain is the separation. The math happens outside the admin where a mistake costs nothing, the exceptions surface before anything changes, and the batch is reviewed before it is real.
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