We are trying to find out if we can get variants onto products automatically in one of two ways :
#1. is there an app/method that can take a collection of products that have no variants, and apply/create the same variants on the entire collection with a click ? So the end result is all the products in that collection have all the same variants
#2. is there an app/method that can take data stored in a metafield (ie. metafield called “size” with values M, L, XL) and convert those metafield values into variants ?
Essentially we need a solution to create variants that does not involve .csv import, or manual creation of variants.
Thanks
Hi @stevronsmds , I am not entirely sure but I think you can implement this solution with the help of shopify flow app (free app).
If you want I can help you setup shopify flow for your store.
Hello, thanks for the reply. Can you confirm if the Shopify Flow app has a “create variant” function? I have only seen that it has a “delete variant” function but have seen nothing about creating a variant with Flow.
If you can find this solution, I would be interested in discussing working with you to set it up.
Yes sure, I will check it and test it on a demo store for you and I will let you know about the results within a day or two.
I think you can add a graphql query to create variant. Have you checked graphql query in shopify flow?
okay thank you, I would be very interested if the Flow app can do it. I am not so familiar with graphql query.
What I can tell you we have set up is importing products/variants through the API. This of course works fine, the major issue we’ve run into is the 50,000k variant limit (after which 1,000 variant limit/day).
So we are trying to find other ways to create product variants for existing products/new products that does not involve the API or .csv imports.
okay got it, I will look for the solution.
Would you please let me know how many variants or products (approximately) you process or want to process daily for this particular scenario?
Thank you. Yes so we can get about 5,000 products (10 variants) each into Shopify with no issue, then we hit the limit and still need to import another 2600 products (about 10 variants each) in.
So we’re looking at about 2600 products roughly for this scenario we’re talking about.
Hey Abdul, any luck finding any possible solution to our original challenge?
Hi @stevronsmds , I am still looking for the solution.
As I am quite busy now a days so it will take few days for me to research on this.