Product Missing Images Finder for BigCommerce
🔧 Quick Info: Export products or variants that have no image to a file.
What it does
Product Missing Images Finder scans your BigCommerce catalog for items with no image and exports them to a downloadable spreadsheet. You choose whether to check products or variants, narrow the scan with filters if you like, pick which fields to include, and choose CSV or Excel format. The export runs in the background and is delivered when it’s ready, so you can leave the page while it works.
When to use it
Use it to find products or variants that will show a blank or placeholder image on your storefront, so you can prioritise which items need photos. It’s a quick way to audit image coverage across a large catalog or a specific brand, category, or set of SKUs.
Before you start
- A connected BigCommerce store.
- Permission to read products on the connected store (the tool reads your catalog through the BigCommerce API).
- No upload file is needed, this tool creates a file for you.
Step-by-step
1 Open the Product Missing Images Finder tool for your BigCommerce store.
2 Select Product or Variants step. Choose an Export Type:
- Products — then optionally filter by SKU (single or comma-separated), Keyword (name or SKU), Select Categories, Brand, Product Availability, Product Condition, Featured Products, Product Shipping Type, Product Stock Status, and Product Visibility. Leave filters blank to scan all products.
- Variants — then optionally filter by Product SKU (comma-separated, to scan all variants of those products) and/or Variant SKU (comma-separated). Leave blank to scan all variants.
- When you submit this step the tool does a quick check that your filters match some data, if nothing matches, it tells you so you can adjust the filters before continuing.
3 Export Options step. Enter a Filename (a default with today’s date is pre-filled), choose the File Format (CSV or Excel), and tick the columns you want on the Choose your file’s columns screen.
4 Email Delivery step. The download link is emailed to you when the export completes — your account email is prefilled; change it or turn email delivery off on this step if you prefer.
5 Submit. The export runs in the background; when it’s finished you can download the file from the tool (and the download link is emailed to you unless you turned email delivery off). The file lists only the products (or variants) that have no image.
File / field reference
File formats: CSV or Excel (.xlsx).
What gets exported: only items with no image, products whose image list is empty, or variants with no variant image.
Fields you can include (Products): SKU · Name · Url · Categories · Brand · Availability · Condition · Inventory Level · Is Visible · Is Featured · Is Free Shipping. (SKU is selected by default.)
Fields you can include (Variants): Sku · Product SKU. (SKU is selected by default.)
The exported file uses these field names as its column headers.
Troubleshooting / FAQ
“No data found for the selected filters.”
— Your filters didn’t match any products or variants. Loosen them (leave them blank to scan everything) and try again.
My export is empty.
— That usually means every item matching your filters already has an image, there’s nothing missing to report. Widen your filters if you expected results.
I switched between Products and Variants and my field selection changed.
— That’s expected, products and variants offer different fields, so the selection resets to the default (SKU) when you switch type.
Large catalogs take a while.
— The export processes your catalog in the background and notifies you when the file is ready, you don’t need to keep the page open.