Adding separate product listings as colour variants in Dawn

Store Design
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Topic summary

A store using the Dawn 14.0 theme has created separate product listings for each color and wants those separate listings to appear as color swatch variants within each listing (i.e., swatches linking to other product pages). Screenshots show two distinct listings for the same product in different colors and that a given product lacks swatches for the other color.

A responder cautions that swatches linking to different products may confuse shoppers since they aren’t true variants. Suggested alternatives:

  • Add links to the other color products in the description, or use a “related items” feature/app to show the other colors.
  • Keep separate products but also set up variants on each, making identical listings where each product presents a different color as the primary selection on collection/product pages.

No definitive implementation within Dawn is confirmed; suggestions focus on UX and setup workarounds rather than native swatch-to-product linking. No resolution or action taken yet; the question remains open.

Summarized with AI on December 29. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi,

So in my store, we’ve been creating completely separate listings for each colour variant that the product comes in but Im looking to add each of these separate listings as colour swatched variants into each of the listings. Is this possible to achieve? I’m using dawn 14.0.

This is the example of us making 2 different listings for the same product in 2 separate colours:

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When I go into the product, they do not have colour swatch variants for the other colour.

Such as:

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(We achieved this through making a colour variants within the actual listing.)

We wanted each colour variant to appear as it’s own listing to make our store appear more full.

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That might become confusing, if I understand your correctly, the swatch variant would really just be a link to a different product. So rather than doing it as an actual swatch variant you might want to either just add them to the description with links to the other products, or with a “related items” app (if your theme doesn’t have that). OR you could just keep your items just as they are with 3 different products, but add the variants to each…basically you’d have three different identical items each with variants, the only difference between them being each having a different color as the main primary variant that shows in the collection/product page.