---
title: Faster price updates on large Shopify stores
date: 2026-10-27
description: Imports that find variants by SKU or update market prices now run much faster on stores with tens of thousands to millions of variants.
tags: ["Products","Imports"]
categories: ["Changelog"]
url: https://www.getaltera.com/changelog/2026-10-27-faster-price-updates-on-large-shopify-stores/
---
If you update prices on a large store with a spreadsheet, your imports now finish sooner and fail less often.

### Improvements

- **SKU lookups** - Imports with `Variant SKU [ID]` now load your variants in one Shopify bulk request, about 33 minutes instead of 2-3 hours for 8 million variants ([Update products by SKU](https://support.getaltera.com/en/articles/15932301-how-to-bulk-update-shopify-products-by-sku)).
- **Other ID columns** - `Variant ID [ID]`, `Variant Barcode [ID]`, and `ID [ID]` imports use the same faster lookup on stores with 10,000 or more variants.
- **Market prices** - Imports with `Price / Market` columns now send up to 250 prices to Shopify in one request instead of one request per product ([Market price fields](https://support.getaltera.com/en/articles/11490229-product-fields#pricing-by-markets)).
- **Clearing market prices** - A blank market price cell no longer makes the import read your whole price list, which took hours on large catalogs.
- **Cancel** - A cancelled import now stops its Shopify requests within seconds, so the next import on your store starts at full speed.

### Fixes

- **Busy price lists** - Imports now retry when Shopify reports that a price list is being changed, instead of failing about 1 in 10 products.