BEAR - WooCommerce Bulk Editor and Products Manager Professional

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How to bulk edit EAN / GTIN field in bulk editor

WooCommerce stores the EAN (GTIN) code as a meta field with the key _global_unique_id. BEAR does not show it by default, but you can add it manually in a few steps.

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Step by step

  1. Open BEAR → go to the Meta Fields tab
  2. Enter the key _global_unique_id and add it as a custom meta column with type string
  3. Click Save meta fields
  4. Go to the Settings tab, find the new column, enable it and click Save
  5. Optionally reorder the column to a convenient position in Settings and save again

The EAN field now appears as a column in the Products Editor and is ready for inline and bulk editing.

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Note

Editing the EAN value in BEAR updates it in the WooCommerce database. Whether it is displayed on your product pages depends on your theme or plugins — BEAR only manages the data itself, not how it is shown on the front-end.