How to Bulk Edit Is Physical Product (requires shipping)

Mark variants as physical (they ship) or digital (they don't) in one go. Use this when you've added a downloadable, a service, or a gift card to a catalogue full of physical goods — flip the digital ones to No so Shopify stops collecting a shipping address for them at checkout.

This is a variant field. The setting lives on each variant, not the product, so the action runs once per matched variant. A product with three variants gets three updates.

One action, two choices. There's nothing to type — you just pick Yes or No. Filter your products carefully before running so you only flip the variants you mean to.

Step 1: Pick the Is Physical Product field

In the Configure Product Edits panel, click Select Field.

The field picker opens. Is Physical Product (requires shipping) lives under Variant Fields — type "physical" into the search box if the list is long.

Click it. The modal closes and the configuration panel switches to a two-choice picker headed Is Physical Product.

Step 2: Pick Yes or No

There's no value to type. Two radio choices and that's it.

• Yes (Physical product) — variants get requiresShipping = true. Shopify will ask for a shipping address at checkout and apply your shipping rates.
• No (Digital product) — variants get requiresShipping = false. Checkout skips the shipping step for those line items.

The form defaults to Yes. Click whichever applies to the variants you've filtered.

Setting No on a variant doesn't make it a "real" digital product on its own. To deliver a file, you still need a digital-delivery app or a fulfilment app that sends the asset. This toggle only controls whether Shopify treats the line as shippable.

Step 3: Check the preview, then run

The Edit Preview on the right resolves your choice against every matched variant before you run. Each row shows the current value struck through and the new value next to it.

A few things worth noting:

• Variants that already have the value you're setting are skipped — they don't show up in the preview as a change. If you pick No and your catalogue is already entirely digital, the preview shows products but no diff rows.
• This is a one-shot toggle. Re-running the same edit on the same variants does nothing the second time.

When the preview matches what you want, click Start Bulk Edit Now at the bottom of the configuration panel.

After the run

• The change is reversible from the History page using Undo — it puts every flipped variant back to its previous state.
• Variants set to No drop out of shipping calculations: no rates are applied, no address is requested for an order containing only those variants, and Shopify won't print a packing slip for them.
• An order that mixes physical and digital variants still requires a shipping address — the address is collected because of the physical line, and Shopify ships the physical part as normal.
• Tax rules don't change with this toggle. If you also need to mark items as non-taxable, run a Taxable bulk edit alongside this one.

Filter before you flip. Most stores have a few digital outliers in a sea of physical products (or vice versa). Use the Filter Products to Edit panel — by tag, product type, vendor, or title — to narrow down to the variants you actually want to change. Hitting run with a loose filter will mark the entire catalogue as digital, and reverting that one variant at a time afterwards is painful.

EditEngine, the Shopify bulk editor by Profitonium, treats this as a single setValue action against variant.inventoryItem.requiresShipping. There are no per-variant overrides, no rounding, no dynamic values — just the boolean.