Allocating variants

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

An author is setting up a Shopify store to sell 10 books in multiple formats (ebooks, paperbacks, audiobooks), each requiring different suppliers. Paperbacks specifically need separate US and UK suppliers.

Current Challenge:

  • Successfully created product variants with different images for each format
  • Unclear how to assign different suppliers to individual variants
  • Following Book Vault’s (printer) integration instructions created duplicate product listings instead of linking to existing variants

Goal: Maintain one listing per book title while routing different formats to their respective suppliers.

The author received a detailed response (content not shown) and is working through the suggested solution. The issue remains unresolved in the visible discussion.

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I am confused! I’m an author trying to set up Shopify to sell my 10 books as ebooks/paperbacks/audiobooks - each to be delivered by a different supplier (paperbacks will need a different US supplier to the UK one). So, I was feeling pleased with myself for setting up product variants, each with a different image. But how do I allocate the suppliers? I followed instructions from Book Vault (printers) to link their site, but that has created a duplicate listing, and I only want one for each title.

Can anyone help, please?

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Wow! Thank you for such a detailed response - I will work my way through it!

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