Objective
Deleting multiple products in bulk.
To delete a large number of products at once we need to set the products to inactive through a CSV, XLSX or XLS file export/import and then delete all inactive products.
Setup
- Vend for Mac or PC
Steps
Exporting your product list
- Click Products
- Click Export List
- Download exported CSV, XLSX or XLS file
Setting the products to inactive
Important: Make sure you remove all inventory columns from this spreadsheet before reimporting it.
- Open the file
- Scroll across to the Active column header in the file you exported
- Change the '1' to a '0' for each product you are deleting
- Save the file
- In Vend, Click Products
- Click Import
- Import your file by drag and dropping or by searching for the file location
Deleting the inactive products
- Click Products
- Filter the status drop-down from Active to Inactive.
- At the top right, Click Delete all inactive products