Adding a strikethrough for sold out items (using app)

Topic summary

Need a visual sold‑out indicator on color swatches when using the Prime Swatches app. The app links related variants correctly but offers no way to show unavailable colors, leading to a poor user experience. The requester wants a strikethrough or gray overlay for sold‑out colors and shared a product link as an example.

Key terms: variants (product options like color/size); swatches (visual, clickable color selectors); app code (the app’s internal code controlling its behavior).

Response: A participant explains that the app’s code is not accessible to merchants or third parties, so this behavior cannot be custom‑coded unless the app developer adds the feature.

Status/outcome:

  • No workaround or custom code approach was provided.
  • The requester hoped for a method that doesn’t require accessing the app code, but none was identified.
  • Issue remains unresolved; depends on the app developer to implement or an alternative app/approach outside this thread.
Summarized with AI on December 29. AI used: gpt-5.

We are using an app (Prime Swatches) to link related variants, and it’s working great – except that it doesn’t have any option to indicate whether a color is sold out.

These is creating a pretty bad user experience. Can anyone help me code in a way to add a strikethrough or grayed out overlay to the colors that are sold out? I contacted the app developer but they have not been helpful… thanks in advance!

https://weathermanumbrella.com/products/stick-umbrella-black

Unfortunately, app code is not accessible and cannot be modified by anyone other than the app developer.

Thanks – I thought there might be a way to do it without accessing their code.