Switch a batch of variants between Taxable and Non-Taxable in one run. Useful when you start collecting tax on a product line, exempt a charity SKU, fix imports that came in with the wrong flag, or prep variants for a tax-exempt market. EditEngine's bulk editor flips the Shopify variant taxable field — there's no value to type, just pick one of two options.

Taxable is a variant field. Each variant has its own taxable flag, so a product with five variants gets five updates from one run.

What this does NOT change. Taxable controls whether tax is calculated. The actual tax rate still comes from your Shopify tax settings (regions, overrides, tax codes). Flipping a variant to taxable doesn't pick a rate — it just tells Shopify to apply the rate you've configured.

Step 1: Pick the Taxable field

Open the EditEngine bulk editor. In the Configure Product Edits panel, click Select Field.

The Configure Product Edits panel with the Select Field button outlined

The field picker opens. Taxable lives under Variant Fields, between Price and Tax Code. You can also start typing taxable into the search box at the top to jump straight to it.

The Select Field modal with Taxable outlined under Variant Fields

Click Taxable. The modal closes and the configuration panel switches to the Taxable form.

Step 2: Choose Taxable or Non-Taxable

There's no value to type. The form shows one short prompt — "Set whether the variants are taxable." — and two radio buttons:

Set to Taxable — every matched variant gets taxable = true. Shopify will apply tax to these variants at checkout based on your store's tax settings.
Set to Non-Taxable — every matched variant gets taxable = false. No tax will be charged on these variants regardless of the customer's region.

The default is Set to Taxable.

Configuration panel with Set to Taxable selected and the Edit Preview showing variants flipping from false to true

If you need the opposite, click Set to Non-Taxable instead.

Configuration panel with Set to Non-Taxable selected

Filter before you run. This action overwrites the flag for every variant that matches your filters — there's no "only flip variants currently set to false" option. If you only want to change a subset, narrow the Filter Products to Edit panel first (e.g. filter by Vendor, Tags, or Product Type).

Step 3: Check the preview, then run

The Edit Preview on the right lists matched products and shows the change per variant — false → true (or true → false) under each variant's Taxable row. Skim it to make sure you're hitting the variants you expect.

When the preview looks right, click Start Bulk Edit Now at the bottom of the panel. Variants with no actual change (e.g. already taxable when you picked Set to Taxable) get a no-op write — they don't break the run.

After the run

Reversible. Taxable changes are tracked in EditEngine's History page and can be reverted with Undo, which flips the variants back to their previous values.
Tax rates live elsewhere. If tax still isn't being charged after switching variants to Taxable, check Shopify's Settings → Taxes and duties — the variant flag is just one half of the equation; the other half is having tax rules configured for the customer's region.
Exempt customers still don't pay. Setting a variant to Taxable doesn't override customer-level tax exemptions. Tax-exempt customers won't be charged tax on a taxable variant.