Get a set of effective product management actions, like assigning categories and updating prices in bulk, etc Spend a lot of time on updating prices or assigning products to categories? STOP! With this extension you will increase and/or decrease prices and special prices for large numbers of products in just a few clicks. The prices can be modified either by flat amount or by percentage. Let's say you need to increase price in bulk, e.g. by 10% for 300 products. Pick the products, choose 'Update price' action, indicate +10% and click 'Submit' to complete the operation. That's how simple it is with our extension. We believe it would take a great lot more time to do the same by standard Magento means. You can learn more at http://amasty.com/mass-product-actions.html

1. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com
Mass Product Actions
Magento Extension
User Guide
User Guide: Mass Product Actions Page 1
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Table of contents:
1. New Product Actions ..………………………...………………………………….. 3
2. Extension Settings ……………...…………………...…………..……………….. 4
3. ‘Assign Categories’ and ‘Remove Categories’ actions ..……………….. 6
4. ‘Update Price’ and ‘Update Special Price’ actions …….……………….. 8
5. ‘Modify Special Price using Price’ action .………….…….……………….. 9
6. ‘Relate’, ‘Up-sell’ and ‘Cross-sell’ actions ………….…….……………….. 10
7. ‘Copy Custom Options’ action ………………………….…….……………….. 11
8. ‘Change Attribute Set’ action ………….………………..…….……………….. 12
9. ‘Fast Delete’ action .……………………….………………..…….……………….. 13
User Guide: Mass Product Actions Page 2
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3. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 1. New Product Actions
With the extension you get a number of
new actions at the product grid (admin
panel -> Catalog-> Manage Products):
Assign Category, Remove Category,
Update Price, Update Special Price,
Modify Special Price using Price, Relate,
Up-sell, Cross-sell, Copy Custom Options,
Change Attribute Set, Fast Delete.
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4. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 2. Extension Settings
You can use two rounding algorithms for ‘Update
Price’ and ‘Update Special Price’ actions. If you
indicate 0.99 in this field , updated prices will be
rounded to n.99, for example 3.57 and 8.32 will be
rounded to 3.99 and 8.99 respectively. If you specify
0.5 here, prices will be rounded to n.50, so 3.57 and
8.32 would become 3.50 and 8.50.
For categories-related actions you can either display the drop-down
tree of categories or a text field for entering category ids (id option
could work better for catalogs with very large number of categories;
also with this option you can remove/assign products to several
categories at once, with dropdown – only one category at a time).
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5. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 2. Extension Settings
There are also settings for ‘Relate’, ‘Up-sell’ and ‘Cross-sell’ actions, which allow you to choose linking
algorithms for these actions. There are three possible algorithms: Default, 2 Way and Multi Way:
1. ‘Default’ means, that relations between products will be built by the standard magento functionality (that is
when you have to manually indicate related, up-sell and cross-sell items for each product).
2. ‘2 Way’ algorithm. For example you have ‘product 1’, ‘product 2’ and ‘product 3’. If you add ‘product 2’ and
‘product 3’ as up-sells (or related/cross-sells) for ‘product 1’, only ‘product 1’ will become an up-sell (or
related/cross-sell) for ‘product 2’ and ‘product 3’. ‘product 3’ will not become an up-sell (or related/cross-sell)
for ‘product 2’ and ‘product 3’ will not become an up-sell (or related/cross-sell) for ‘product 3’.
3. ‘Multi Way’ algorithm. Let’s say you have soap, shampoo and toothpaste. If you add shampoo and toothpaste
as related (or up-sells/cross-sells) to soap, all these products will become related to each other – soap and
shampoo will become related (or up-sells/cross sells) to toothpaste; toothpaste and soap will become related (or
up-sells/cross sells) to shampoo.
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6. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 3. ‘Assign Categories’ and ‘Remove Categories’ actions
‘Assign Categories’ action will let
you assign any number of
products to a certain category.
Please select the necessary
products, choose the category and
then click ‘Submit’ button. All the
products that you’ve selected will
be assigned to the category.
For ‘Remove Categories’ action you
take the same steps, but this time the
selected products will be removed
from the category that you choose.
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7. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 3. ‘Assign Categories’ and ‘Remove Categories’ actions
You can remove/assign products to
several categories at once, if you turn off
tree-like category view in configuration.
Please enter ids of the categories in the
‘IDs’ field and click ‘Submit’.
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8. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 4. ‘Update Price’ and ‘Update Special Price’ actions
‘Update Price’ action will let you
increase and decrease prices either
by flat amount or by percent.
To decrease prices by 20%, indicate -20%
in this field. To increase prices by 10%,
indicate +10%. Specify +10 to increase
prices by 10 dollars/euros/etc., and -10 to
decrease prices by 10 dollars/euros/etc.
‘Update Special Price’ action works on analogy. Please
be careful with price operations, as there’s no way to
revert them, unless you have a backup. Therefore we
recommend to create a backup of your site database
before doing major price modifications.
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9. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 5. ‘Modify Special Price using Price’ action
‘Modify Special Price using Price’
action enables you to create special
prices based on regular prices.
To make special prices 20% smaller than
regular prices, indicate -20% in this field.
To make special prices 20 (e.g. dollars,
euros or pounds) smaller than regular
prices, indicate -20 in this field.
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10. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 6. ‘Relate’, ‘Up-sell’ and ‘Cross-sell’ actions
‘Relate’ action
enables you to make
products related.
First select the products which you would like
to relate. Then indicate id of the product to
which you would like these products to be
related and click ‘Submit’ button.
The products will become related based on the
algorithm that you choose at the configuration
page (see page 5 of this user guide).
‘Up-sell’ and ‘Cross-sell’ actions work on analogy.
They enable to you quickly assign up-sell and cross-
sell blocks. You can choose linking algorithms for
these actions at the configuration page.
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11. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 7. ‘Copy Custom Options’ action
‘Copy Custom Options’ action
will enable you to quickly
copy custom options from
one product to many others.
Use ‘From Product ID’ field to specify id
of the product, from which custom
options should be copied to the products
you’ve selected. Then click ‘Submit’.
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12. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 8. ‘Change Attribute Set’ action
‘Change Attribute Set’ action will
enable you to change attribute set
of products (by one and in bulk).
Pick the necessary products, select
the action, then choose the attribute
set, which should replace the
current one and press ‘Submit’.
VERY IMPROTANT. Please be very careful with
changing attribute sets for configurable products. If the
replacement set does not have an attribute on which the
configurable product is based, there will be issues with
display of the configurable product on the front end
(the product page wouldn’t open properly).
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13. Copyright © 2011 amasty.com 9. ‘Fast Delete’ action
‘Fast Delete’ action will let you delete any
number of products very fast. In comparison
with standard Magento ‘Delete’ action it works
a lot faster and also allows to delete a much
larger number of products in one operation.
Once you’ve chosen the action, please
select the necessary products and click
‘Submit’ button. Please be aware that the
action can’t be reverted, therefore
please create a backup before using it.
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Thank you!
Should you have any questions or feature suggestions, please contact us at:
http://amasty.com/support.html
Your feedback is absolutely welcome!
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