Products - Search & Replace

Products - Search & Replace

Search and Replace

Search and replace is a function which can update different variables in goods and services in bulk.

IMPORTANT: There is no rollback/undo on the function once you confirm changes. So be sure you are confident on how it works before applying any changes otherwise please contact the support desk for help.

To use search and replace;

  1. Go to any product record.
  2. Click the actions button at the bottom of the product record and choose search and replace.
  3. The Search and Replace form will open.
  4. The first tab, Search Criteria, is where you can select the group of products to update. You can leave the selections set to all to do everything or select specific categories /classes to update.

  5. After selecting Search Criteria click on Values to Modify tab to select which values to changes.
    1.  Click the Clear button first to make sure any previous selections are removed.
    2. Once previous selections are cleared there are multiple selections here to choose from. For example to update sell prices by 2% set Sell Price (By %) to 2.

  6. After selecting values then click the Apply tab.
    1. On here you will first need to click Load Product Update button. This load load the items to be updated 
    2. You can then click on the Before and After buttons to see the values before and after the update. 
    3. When happy click Apply. Depending how many products you are updating it may take a while to run through.