Optimizing Products

The Products tab is where every run starts. Filter down to the products you want, select them, and hand them off to the pipeline.

Telling Optimized Products Apart

Every row shows an Optimization column with a status pill based on that product’s most recent run item:

Optimized - the product’s last change was applied to your catalog
Pending review - a run has previewed, failed, or skipped this product, but nothing has been applied yet
Reverted - an applied change on this product was reverted
No pill at all - Dropshipping Product Optimizer has never touched this product

A blank Optimization cell means “never run,” not “something’s wrong” - if your whole catalog looks blank in this column, it simply means none of the visible products have been through Dropshipping Product Optimizer yet.

Filtering Your Catalog

Narrow the product list before selecting anything:

Optimization status - Optimized, Pending review, Reverted, or Not yet optimized
Status - Active, Draft, or Archived
Product type - your Shopify product type
Vendor - useful if you dropship from multiple suppliers with different naming conventions
Tag - target a specific collection or import batch
Free text search - search by title or SKU

Filters combine, so you can, for example, filter to Not yet optimized products from a specific vendor to find exactly what still needs attention.

Selecting Products

Tick individual products, or use Select all on this page to grab everything currently visible. As soon as one product is selected, a selection bar appears showing how many are selected and a preview of their names, with a Clear selection option.

Seeing the Cost Before You Run

Once you’ve selected products, a banner tells you exactly what this run will cost against your plan’s quota before you click anything else:

Within quota - shows how many of your included products remain this cycle and confirms there’s no extra charge
Over quota with a subscription - shows how many products would go over your included quota, at your plan’s per-product overage rate, and the estimated extra cost
Over quota with no subscription - warns you that only a limited number of products remain in your quota and asks you to choose a plan in Billing before starting the run

You’re only ever billed for products you actually approve and apply - see Plans & Billing.

Creating a Run

Click the Optimize button in the selection bar - labeled with your product count, e.g. “Optimize 3 products” - to create a run and jump straight to it on the Runs tab. A few things happen immediately:

Your current pipeline settings (language, vertical, writing rules, brand names to keep, and so on) are snapshotted onto the run
The run starts in a Previewing state
The pipeline works through your products, generating a full before/after preview for each - nothing is written to your catalog during this stage
Once every product has a preview, the run moves to Awaiting approval

Settings are frozen per run

Because settings are snapshotted at creation, editing your Settings tab later never changes the meaning of a run you already created - what you see in a run’s preview is exactly what was configured when you clicked Optimize. See Reviewing & Approving for what happens next.

Re-Optimizing a Product

You can select a product that’s already Optimized and include it in a new run - useful if you’ve since changed your writing rules or vertical and want fresher copy. Each run is independent: while the new run is in progress, that product’s Optimization pill moves to Pending review until you approve or the run finishes.