diff --git a/Koha/BackgroundJob/BatchUpdateItem.pm b/Koha/BackgroundJob/BatchUpdateItem.pm
index 1158efd568..75250d6877 100644
--- a/Koha/BackgroundJob/BatchUpdateItem.pm
+++ b/Koha/BackgroundJob/BatchUpdateItem.pm
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ sub process {
                 callback                          => sub { $self->step; },
             }
         );
+        $report->{errors}               = $results->{errors};
         $report->{modified_itemnumbers} = $results->{modified_itemnumbers};
         $report->{modified_fields}      = $results->{modified_fields};
     } catch {
@@ -123,7 +124,6 @@ sub process {
 
     my $data = $self->decoded_data;
     $data->{report} = $report;
-
     $self->finish($data);
 }
 
diff --git a/Koha/Items.pm b/Koha/Items.pm
index 99429456be..7ac9f034ae 100644
--- a/Koha/Items.pm
+++ b/Koha/Items.pm
@@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ sub batch_update {
 
     my ( @modified_itemnumbers, $modified_fields );
     my $i;
+    my @errors;
     my $schema = Koha::Database->new->schema;
     while ( my $item = $self->next ) {
 
@@ -578,6 +579,9 @@ sub batch_update {
                 }
             )
         } catch {
+            push @errors, {
+                error => eval { $_->{error} } || "$_",
+            };
             warn $_
         };
 
@@ -600,7 +604,10 @@ sub batch_update {
         }
     }
 
-    return ( { modified_itemnumbers => \@modified_itemnumbers, modified_fields => $modified_fields }, $self );
+    return (
+        { modified_itemnumbers => \@modified_itemnumbers, modified_fields => $modified_fields, errors => \@errors },
+        $self
+    );
 }
 
 =head2 apply_regex
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/background_jobs/batch_item_record_modification.inc b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/background_jobs/batch_item_record_modification.inc
index ee3d09f25e..1ee3fd72cb 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/background_jobs/batch_item_record_modification.inc
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/background_jobs/batch_item_record_modification.inc
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@
             [% IF job.status == 'cancelled' %]<span>The job has been cancelled before it finished.</span>[% END %]
             <a href="/cgi-bin/koha/tools/batchMod.pl" title="New batch item modification">New batch item modification</a>
         </div>
+        <div>
+            [% IF report.errors.size %]
+                <div class="alert alert-warning">
+                    <span>[% report.errors.size | html %] item(s) could not be modified.</span>
+                </div>
+            [% END %]
+        </div>
     [% END %]
 [% END %]