# How to Recover Shopify Product Data How to recover Shopify product data by type: what comes back for edited fields, deletions, images, and inventory, and which source restores each. How you recover Shopify product data depends entirely on which kind of data was lost, because Shopify treats each type differently. A changed field like price or tags can be reset from a copy of the old value. A deleted product or variant has to be rebuilt, with a new ID. Lost images are usually still in your Files. Wiped inventory numbers can often be read back from Shopify's own history. There is no single restore button, so the first step is naming exactly what data went missing, then using the source that matches it. ## Edited fields: price, tags, status, and the rest Scalar fields are the friendliest case. If a bulk edit set the wrong price, tags, status, vendor, product type, or SEO text, you reset them by writing the old values back. Those old values live in a pre-edit export if you made one, and for prices, in your order history, since every past order recorded the price at the time of sale. Our guide to [undoing a bulk edit in Shopify](/blog/undo-bulk-edit-shopify) covers the reset, including why reverse math on a percentage is unreliable. ## Deleted products and variants Deletions are the hard case. There is no trash, and a rebuilt product or variant gets a new ID that breaks references from that point forward. Without a backup you can still reconstruct a lot from order exports, connected apps, and web archives of the page, which is walked through in [what to do after accidentally deleting products](/blog/accidentally-deleted-shopify-products). ## Missing images If images vanished, they are usually still sitting in Content then Files even when the product shows none, because a bulk edit or import changed the link, not the file. Relinking is tedious but complete when the files survived, and the full diagnosis is in [why product images disappear after a bulk edit](/blog/shopify-product-images-disappeared-bulk-edit). ## Wiped inventory numbers Inventory is more recoverable than most people expect, because Shopify logs adjustments per variant. If a bulk edit or import zeroed your counts, you can often read the prior levels back from that history and correct them. The specifics are in [recovering lost inventory after a bulk edit](/blog/lost-shopify-inventory-after-bulk-edit). ## Metafields and custom data Metafields are the other genuinely hard case. The standard product CSV does not carry them, so a plain export is not a metafield backup. Recovering them means a backup app that captured your metafields before the change, or rebuilding the values by hand from whatever source populated them. ## The pattern across all of them Every one of these gets easier with the same thing: a copy of the affected products taken before the change. That is what SafeBulk automates for the fields it edits, snapshotting every product and variant a job will touch before it runs. SafeBulk reverses edits that SafeBulk made. It cannot restore products or variants you deleted through Shopify itself, or changes made by other apps: those never pass through our snapshot. So it is the safety net for your own bulk edits, not a universal recovery tool. For everything else, the sources above are your path back. [Take the copy automatically next time](/). ## FAQ ### Does Shopify keep a backup of my product data I can restore? No. Shopify keeps no restorable version history of your catalog, and support cannot roll it back for you. Recovery depends on copies that live elsewhere: exports you made, your order history, Shopify's inventory adjustment log, connected apps, and web archives of the pages. ### What product data is hardest to recover? Deletions and metafields. A deleted product or variant has to be rebuilt as a new record with a new ID, and metafields do not round-trip through the standard product CSV, so they need a backup app that captured them. Edited scalar fields and inventory numbers are usually the easiest to get back. ### What is the single best habit for recoverable product data? Keep a copy of the products before you change them. An export before a manual edit, or a bulk editor that snapshots automatically, turns most recovery from a rebuild into a lookup. ## Frequently asked questions ### Does Shopify keep a backup of my product data I can restore? No. Shopify keeps no restorable version history of your catalog, and support cannot roll it back for you. Recovery depends on copies that live elsewhere: exports you made, your order history, Shopify's inventory adjustment log, connected apps, and web archives of the pages. ### What product data is hardest to recover? Deletions and metafields. A deleted product or variant has to be rebuilt as a new record with a new ID, and metafields do not round-trip through the standard product CSV, so they need a backup app that captured them. Edited scalar fields and inventory numbers are usually the easiest to get back. ### What is the single best habit for recoverable product data? Keep a copy of the products before you change them. An export before a manual edit, or a bulk editor that snapshots automatically, turns most recovery from a rebuild into a lookup. --- _Honest limitation: SafeBulk reverses edits that SafeBulk made. It cannot restore products or variants you deleted through Shopify itself, or changes made by other apps: those never pass through our snapshot._