Exporting Metafields
Export your Shopify metafields — the custom-field values stored on your products, orders, customers, collections, and other resources — to a CSV or Excel file, across every connected store at once. Each metafield is one row, so this is the fastest way to audit, back up, or hand off all your custom data in one spreadsheet.
For the wizard itself — picking entities, choosing a format and destination, scheduling — see the exporting overview.
Metafields are the stored values. If you want the schema — the definitions that describe each field — see Exporting Metafield Definitions.
What you can export
In Simple mode you pick from a curated list. The most-used fields:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| ID | The metafield's unique id in the index. |
| Namespace | The metafield namespace (its container). |
| Key | The metafield key. |
| Owner Type | The Shopify resource type it's attached to (product, order, customer, …). |
| Owner ID | The id of the resource that owns the metafield. |
| Parent Product ID | The parent product id, for variant-level metafields. |
| Type | The Shopify metafield value type (e.g. single_line_text_field). |
| Value | The stored value. |
| Store | Which connected store the metafield belongs to (name, domain, email). |
| Created / Updated At | When the metafield was created and last changed. |
Template (Advanced) mode opens the full column tree if you need anything beyond the curated list.
Filtering what you export
Narrow the export to the metafields you want. The available filters:
- Store — limit to one or more connected stores.
- Owner type — a single type or several (products, orders, customers, …).
- Owner ID — metafields on one specific resource.
- Parent product ID — variant metafields under one product.
- Namespace / Key — a specific namespace or key.
- Type — a specific metafield value type.
There's also a free-text search that matches the metafield value. This per-entity filter is part of the export and is independent of whatever filter you last used on the Metafields dashboard.
Exporting from the dashboard vs the wizard
From the Metafields dashboard, the Export button (the Export Builder) does a quick single-entity export scoped to what you're viewing — Current page, Filtered (everything matching your dashboard filters), Selected (rows you've ticked), or All metafields across your stores. The Export Wizard (Exports → New export) is the place for multi-entity exports and scheduled runs. Both share the same columns, filters, formats, and destinations.
Scheduling
Any metafields export can be saved as a recurring daily, weekly, or monthly schedule instead of a one-time run — each run rebuilds from live data. See scheduled exports.
Tutorial: export all product metafields in a namespace
- Go to Exports → New export (
/exports/new). - In Step 1, tick Metafields and click Next.
- In Step 2, keep the Basic columns (namespace, key, type, value) and add the Store column if you export from more than one store.
- Add a filter: set Owner type to
PRODUCTand Namespace to the one you want. - In Step 3, choose CSV and set the destination to Email.
- In Step 4, name it "Product metafields" and click Run now.
- You'll get an in-app notification when the file is ready.
Permissions
- View Exports (
viewExports) — build a metafields export. - Download Exports (
downloadExports) — download the finished file.
Account owners have both. Grant them to team members from their permissions.
FAQ
Can I export Shopify metafields to Excel? Yes — choose Excel (.xlsx) or CSV
in Step 3.
Does the export include the metafield value? Yes — the Value column is a default Simple column, alongside namespace, key, type, and owner.
Can I export metafields for just one resource type? Yes — use the Owner type filter to limit the export to products, orders, customers, and so on, and combine it with a Namespace or Key filter.
What's the difference between metafields and metafield definitions? Metafields are the stored values; metafield definitions are the schema that describes each field. Each has its own export.
Can I export metafields from all my stores at once? Yes — an export spans every connected store by default. Add a Store filter to narrow it to one.
Can I schedule a metafields export? Yes — save it as a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule; each run rebuilds from live data and is delivered to your destination.