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There are many more tools built to helps Magento 2 admins optimize their tasks. Beside Magento 2 Order Grid extension, now you can find the Better Product Grid module, which contributes to minimize the time to manage your products at backend, hence improve the site performance significantly.
If you are using Magento default product grid, you can see that 30 product columns are located in one tab only. This overwhelms admins when they need to arrange and configure those columns. In other words, when putting all product data into one basket, it is easy to be messed up and make mistakes, which directly affect your product catalog.
Even Magento default supports a large number of product columns, there are some important data are missing including Product Category, Availability, Qty sold, Frontend Product Link, Backorder data and so on. In order to set up and configure these data, admins must go to each product detail page, which absolutely time-consuming, especially for a considerable number of products.
If your site has thousands of items and you want to edit their product SKU at the same time. How can you do it with the current Magento default?
The answer, unfortunately, is impossible. Admins must go to each product page and manually update product info one by one. This causes admins the inconvenience and sometimes a lot of mistakes. Hence, Magento stores should consider one advanced tool helping them do all editions right at the product grid.
Searching product data at the product grid is also an essential function that Magento admins do need in hand. Unluckily, it is not supported in Magento default for all product attributes. Some most used attributes such as short description, URL key, Tax class, and so on, are unfilterable.
Instead of one columns tab, the module now classifies all default columns of Magento into two separate tabs: Default Group and Attribute Group. This division helps admin allocate and find the product data easily and accurately.
In Default Group, containing: ID, Name, Thumbnail, Type, Attribute Set, SKU, Price, Quantity, Visibility, Status, Websites, Special, Cost, Action Regarding Attribute Group, admin can find Short Description, Special Price From Date, Special Price To Date, Weight, Manufacturer, Meta Title, Meta Keywords, Meta Description, and the rest of Default attributes.
There are a lot of other related-product info, rather than default columns, that need to be managed at product grid. Understanding that, this extension is integrated with needful 13 columns. They are all located at Extra Group tab, beside Default Group and Attribute one.
As mentioned above, Product Grid assists Magento 2 stores with three typical columns: Related, Cross-sell, Up-sell products. Moreover, in each of these, there are some small columns inside which are considered columns’ attributes. Including ID, Thumbnail, Name, Status, SKU, Price.
All of these columns are managed at Product Info Group. Admin can manage those data much more quickly than before when they have to set up related product in each product detail page.
Products can be changed in packaging or size overtime, hence Magento 2 websites should update their images frequently. With Product Grid extension, now admin can upload the product thumbnail right on product grid.
You only need to click to Thumbnail column, then a popup shown allows admins to view the current thumbnails and upload the new ones. Even, admins can delete the old one easily. You can see it through the photo below:
Product Grid supports 3 types of edit inline almost columns. All are AJAX editions so admin does not need to wait for loading page any more or redirecting to another site.
Admin can change any column header right on the product grid
Most product columns can be searched right in grid
Beside the default columns, now admin can export all extra columns with ease
Almost data at product grid can be edited in: Text Field, Text Area, Date, Yes/No, Multiple Select, Dropdown, Price
Admin can enter the fixed number or using +/- signs to change product quantity
Product availability can be updated according to product quantity in stock
After changing product data at grid, admins can click to Frontend product link to preview all changes
Installing Product Attachments, admins are allowed to upload any documents right at grid
All in all, we believe that Magento 2 Product Grid should be something customizable for any Mangeto 2 website to enhance working effectiveness and reduce a ton of time as well as resources to update your product data.