Maestro Products Scheduler and Hextom: Bulk Product Edit both help Shopify merchants make product changes without doing them one by one. They are built for different primary jobs: Hextom is a broad bulk editor that added scheduled tasks, while Maestro is built around scheduling from the start. This comparison covers pricing, scheduling limits and features based on each app's public listing.
Key takeaways
- Maestro is built for scheduled product changes: publishing, price, tags, sales channels and content.
- Hextom is a broad bulk editor for products, orders, images and CSV data, with scheduled bulk edit tasks on its paid plans.
- Hextom's scheduled tasks are limited by plan: not listed on Free or Basic, 10 active on Professional, 100 active on Advanced.
- Maestro's Advanced plan includes unlimited scheduled updates for $9.49/month.
Quick comparison
| Maestro Products Scheduler | Hextom: Bulk Product Edit | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Scheduling product changes | General bulk editing, with scheduling on paid plans |
| Schedule publish, draft, archive | Yes (Draft Helper) | Not listed as a dedicated feature |
| Schedule price changes | Yes | Via scheduled bulk edit tasks |
| Schedule tags | Yes (Tags Scheduling) | Via bulk edit |
| Active scheduled tasks | Unlimited on Advanced | 0 on Free/Basic, 10 on Professional, 100 on Advanced |
| CSV import/export | Not listed | Yes |
| Rollback | Yes | Yes |
| Built for Shopify | Yes | Yes |
| Star rating | 5.0 | 4.9 |
| Starting price | $4.99/month, 3-day free trial | Free plan; $19.99/month for scheduled tasks |
Details are based on the public Shopify App Store listings at the time of writing.
What is Hextom: Bulk Product Edit?
Hextom is a broad bulk editing tool. It covers products, variants, orders, images, prices, SKUs, barcodes, tags, descriptions, inventory, metafields and collections, plus CSV import and export and inventory sync. Scheduled bulk edit tasks and scheduled CSV import and export are included starting on its Professional plan.
What is Maestro Products Scheduler?
Maestro is a Built for Shopify app built specifically around scheduling: the Draft Helper for publish, draft and archive, price scheduling, Tags Scheduling, and scheduling for sales channels, content and collection sorting, with a timeline view and rollback.
The biggest difference: what scheduling costs
Based on their listings, Hextom's scheduled tasks are not available on its Free or Basic plans and start at 10 active scheduled tasks on the $19.99/month Professional plan. Maestro includes scheduling on every plan, with unlimited scheduled updates from $9.49/month on Advanced.
If bulk CSV import and export across many data types is the main need, Hextom's broader toolset may fit better. If the main need is scheduling product changes for a specific date and time, Maestro is built around that job directly.
Strengths and limitations
Hextom: Bulk Product Edit
Strengths
- Very broad bulk editing across products, orders, images and more
- CSV import and export
- Free plan available
- Large review base (1,156 reviews at 4.9 stars, per its listing)
Limitations
- Scheduled tasks are not listed on the Free or Basic plans
- Scheduling capacity is capped by plan (10 or 100 active tasks)
- Higher price to unlock scheduling
Maestro Products Scheduler
Strengths
- Scheduling included on every plan
- Unlimited scheduled updates on Advanced
- Draft Helper, price, tags, sales channels and content all schedulable
- Built for Shopify, 5.0 rating
Limitations
- Fewer reviews on its listing than Hextom
- No CSV import/export listed
- Demo plan batches up to 50 products per schedule
Verdict
Our verdict
If bulk data operations across products, orders and images, with CSV import and export, are the priority, Hextom: Bulk Product Edit covers more ground.
If the priority is scheduling product changes for a specific date and time at every plan level, Maestro Products Scheduler is built for that job and costs less to get scheduling switched on.
Frequently asked questions
Does Hextom Bulk Product Edit include scheduling?
Yes, on its Professional plan and above. Its App Store listing lists 10 active scheduled tasks on Professional ($19.99/month) and 100 active on Advanced ($49.99/month). Its Free and Basic plans do not list scheduled tasks.
Is Maestro cheaper than Hextom for scheduling?
Maestro's Advanced plan is $9.49/month with unlimited scheduled updates. Hextom's scheduled tasks start on its $19.99/month Professional plan, based on their App Store listings.
Can I use both apps?
Yes. Some stores use Hextom for large bulk CSV imports and exports and Maestro for date and time based product scheduling.