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Settings: Add-ons → Manage add-ons → Spreadsheet Bulk Product Editor → Settings. The settings apply to the whole installation (all storefronts).

General

Setting	Default	Description
Products per page (default)	50	The page size the grid starts with: 25, 50, 100 or 250. Each person can change it in the grid; the choice is remembered in the browser.
Products per step in mass actions	50	Mass actions and undo run in short steps of this many products, so even 10,000+ products never hit a PHP time limit. Lower it (20) on slow servers or when other add-ons do heavy work on every product save.
Keep the change log for (days)	90	Older entries are deleted when a new change is saved. Undo is only possible while an entry is kept. 0 keeps the log forever.
Vendors can use the bulk editor	On	Multi-Vendor only. Vendors see Products → Bulk product editor in the vendor panel and edit their own products with the same rules as on the product page.

Privileges

The editor follows the privileges of the core products list:

• Administrators need View catalog to open the editor and the change log, and Manage catalog to save, run mass actions, undo and save views.
• Vendors (Multi-Vendor) need the setting Vendors can use the bulk editor. With the core Vendor privileges add-on, vendor administrators need the same Manage catalog privilege.

Columns that appear only in some stores

• SEO name appears when the core SEO add-on is active. Changing it creates a redirect from the old URL, like on the product page.
• Vendor (read-only column and filter) appears for Multi-Vendor administrators.
• Product features of the types text, number, single checkbox, text select, number select and brand appear in Columns → Features. A feature that is limited to certain categories shows n/a for products outside those categories.

License

The license status is shown in a License card at the top of the add-on page, above the tabs, so you see it on every tab. The License tab holds the key itself. The key is stored once for the whole installation.

The License card shows:

• the status in color: green when valid, blue for a development host or the 14-day period before a key is required (with the days left), amber when the license server could not be reached (with the days left) or a Marketplace number is still being verified, red when the add-on is switched off;
• in plain words what the status means and, when the add-on is (or will be) switched off, what stops: inline saving and new mass actions are switched off; the grid, filters, saved views, the change log and undo of earlier changes keep working;
• the licensed domain, every storefront with its result (covered, development host, not covered), the end of the updates and support period, the last and the next check, and the key in use (masked);
• the actions Enter license key / Change license key (opens the License tab), Check now (verifies at once and stays on the page), Manage license (your licenses on cs-cart.kaviolabs.com) and, without a valid license, Buy a license.

In Add-ons → Manage add-ons the add-on’s row shows a small license badge next to its name, for example License: Valid or License: Pending · 9 days left.

The editor page shows the license status in a bar at the top: a small green chip when the license is valid, or a banner with the status, what is switched off and the same actions as the card. Vendors never see license information.

Setting	Description
License key	Your Kavio Labs license key (KAVIO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX, from My licenses on cs-cart.kaviolabs.com) or your CS-Cart Marketplace license number. If you entered the Marketplace license number in Add-ons → Manage add-ons (the add-on’s license field), leave this empty: the add-on uses that number.
License status	Points to the License card and explains what the check sends.

What the license covers. A license is bound to the base domain you entered at purchase (for example example.com) and covers every subdomain of it (www.example.com, shop.example.com, staging.example.com). Local development hosts are always allowed: localhost, 127.0.0.1 and other private IP addresses, and host names ending in .localhost, .test, .local, .example or .invalid. A store on a different base domain needs its own license. If you move your store to a new domain, contact support.

When the add-on checks. When you save the key, and then once a day. The check runs only in the admin panel (on a page you open) or from cron, never while customers browse the storefront or place orders, and takes a few seconds at most. A cron job keeps the license verified even when nobody opens the admin panel:

php /path/to/store/admin.php --dispatch=kv_bulk_product_editor_license.check

What is sent. The check sends this to https://cs-cart.kaviolabs.com and nothing else: the license key, the add-on ID and version, the host names of your storefronts, your CS-Cart version and edition, and a random one-time value. No customer, vendor, order, product or personal data is sent. The server answers with a digitally signed result, so a forged answer is ignored.

Statuses.

Status (card)	Color	What happens
Valid	Green	The license is valid for this domain. Everything works.
Development host	Blue	The store runs on a local development host, which every license covers. Everything works.
Pending verification	Amber	A CS-Cart Marketplace license number was accepted, but the Marketplace has not confirmed it yet. Everything works.
Pending · N days left	Blue	No verified key yet (a new installation). Everything works for 14 days.
Grace period · N days left	Amber	The last checks failed (for example a network problem). The add-on keeps working for 14 days after the first failed check.
Not activated, Invalid key, Revoked, Domain mismatch, Not verified	Red	Inline saving and new mass actions are switched off. The grid, filters, saved views and the change log keep working, undo of earlier changes still works, and a mass action that was already running can be finished. Your products and the store are not affected. Domain mismatch shows the licensed domain next to the domain your store runs on.

When your updates and support period ends, the add-on keeps working. Only updates and support stop.

License information appears in the admin panel only, and only for administrators who may manage add-ons; vendors and customers never see it. When the add-on is switched off, other admin pages also show a notice once per session with a link to the add-on page; the add-on page and the editor show the card or the status bar instead.