The compare-at price is the strike-through "regular" price most Shopify themes show next to the live price — the one that makes a discount look like a discount. With EditEngine's bulk editor for Shopify, you can set or clear it across hundreds of variants in one pass: type a fixed amount, raise/lower by a number or a percent, derive it from the current price for sale prep, or wipe it entirely.

Compare At Price is a variant field. Each product variant has its own value. EditEngine runs the action once per matched variant — three variants on a product means three updates.

No compare-at price means no strike-through. When this field is empty (the default for most products), themes hide the discount badge and just show the regular price.

Step 1: Open the field picker

In the Configure Product Edits panel, click Select Field.

The Select Field button under Field to edit in the Configure Product Edits panel

The field picker opens as a modal listing every editable Shopify product and variant field grouped by section.

Step 2: Pick Compare At Price

Compare At Price lives under Variant Fields. Type compare in the search box at the top of the modal to jump straight to it.

The Select Field modal filtered to Compare At Price under Variant Fields

Click Compare At Price. The modal closes and the configuration panel switches to a How to edit Compare-at Price dropdown.

Step 3: Choose how to change it

Configure Product Edits showing Compare At Price selected with the How to edit dropdown set to Set to fixed value

Eight actions are available:

Direct value

Set to fixed value — every matched variant gets this exact compare-at price.
Set to null/blank — clear the compare-at price. The strike-through disappears from the storefront.

Adjust the existing compare-at price

Increase by amount — add a flat amount in your store currency.
Decrease by amount — subtract a flat amount.
Increase by percent — raise by a %.
Decrease by percent — lower by a %.

Derive from another field

Set as percent of Price field — set compare-at = X% of the variant's current price. Pick a number above 100 to show a discount (e.g. 150% turns the price into a "33% off" display).
Set as percent of Cost field — set compare-at = X% of the variant's cost (margin-driven MSRP).

The inputs below the dropdown change to match the action you picked.

Step 4: Enter the value (and optional rounding)

Set to fixed value

A single currency-prefixed number input. Type the new compare-at price.

Set to fixed value with INR 999 entered and Don't round the value selected

The currency prefix matches your store's currency. Below the value, a Rounding dropdown lets you snap the result:

End prices in .99 — common retail anchor
End prices in .95 / .90 — same idea, different ending
Round whole number — drops decimals
Round whole number up — always rounds up
Round decimals — to nearest cent
Custom ending — pick your own decimal (e.g. 0.78 for .78 endings)
Don't round the value — default; output is whatever the math produces

Increase / Decrease by amount or percent

A single number input. Amount uses the currency prefix, percent uses a % suffix. The same Rounding dropdown applies.

Set as percent of Price field (or Cost)

A percent input plus a help line under it explaining what gets skipped.

Set as percent of Price field with 150% entered, help text Variants without a price will be skipped, and rounding set to End prices in .99

Pick a percent and (optionally) a rounding option. Skip behaviour:

Price-based: variants without a price are skipped — their compare-at price stays as-is.
Cost-based: variants without a cost value are skipped.

Numbers above 100 produce a compare-at price higher than the live price — the typical sale-prep setup. Numbers under 100 produce a compare-at price lower than the live price; most themes will hide the strike-through entirely in that case because it'd look like a price hike.

Use the Edit Preview on the right to spot which variants resolve and which get skipped before you run.

Set to null/blank

No input — the panel just confirms what the action does.

Set to null/blank with the message The compare-at price will be set to empty/null and the preview showing 899484 cleared to em-dash

This wipes the compare-at price. The strike-through will disappear from your storefront. Use it when a sale ends and you want to remove the "was vs now" display without touching the live price.

Step 5: Filter, preview, and run

The Filter Products to Edit panel at the top scopes which products get touched. Add as many filter rows as you need — by tag, vendor, collection, current price, etc. Set Match conditions to all (every row must match) or any (one row is enough). The 48 Products Matched counter at the top updates as you change filters.

The Edit Preview on the right shows the before/after for the first batch of matched variants — old compare-at price struck through, new value next to it. Skim it to make sure the math looks right and nothing unexpected got swept in.

When you're happy with the preview, click Start Bulk Edit Now at the bottom of the configure panel. Larger jobs may take a minute or two depending on how many variants are involved.

After the run

Compare-at price changes are reversible from the History page using Undo.
For percent-style actions, re-running the same edit re-applies the change. A 10% raise re-run produces another 10% raise — these aren't idempotent.
Setting the compare-at price below the live price usually does nothing visible on the storefront — most themes only display the strike-through when compare-at is greater than price. If your sale isn't showing up, check the relationship between the two values.
Clearing the compare-at price (Set to null/blank) doesn't change what customers pay — it just removes the discount visual.