thread Bulk Edit question in Payments Troubleshooting

Bulk Edit question

joanna150 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:22:15 GMT

Hi, I am looking to Bulk Edit items to remove them from certain categories - does anyone know if this is possible. I know you can bulk edit items to add to a category. I want to clean up my website but it takes so long to search for an item and then edit categories individually. Also when you search for a group of items and edit one when you go back you have to search all over again - does anyone know how you could save a group search?

Thank you in advance

Re: Bulk Edit question

artizansty — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:48:30 GMT

Hey! I’d suggest exporting your item library and manually removing the category next to items you don’t want to fall into a category (this will naturally then belong to an ‘Uncategorised’ category), or add them into another category in bulk (the category needs to exist first before reimporting), then import them back in.

Also don’t delete the token column, or you’ll end up with duplicates!

Re: Bulk Edit question

Breffni — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 09:11:06 GMT

Hi @Joanna 150, welcome to the Seller Community 🙂

As Artizansty mentioned, the fastest way to do this would be to export your Item Library, make your edits and then re-upload the file.

I just popped in here to leave our support article that takes you through the necessary steps if you are unfamiliar. You can take a look here.

And ensure that you have your Square Online Item Sync turned on so that any edits will sync over.

Square Online Overview page in Items > Item Sync or Shared Settings > Item Sync.

Let us know if you have any questions or there is anything we can help with.