Call To Order Handling

Technical Q&A
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1

What’s our best option for handling call to order pricing for product variants?

We have handled this with a tag that hides the price for simple products. (i.e. no variants) However, this does not work with product variants since you cannot add tags to product variants.

2

Shopify doesn’t support variant tags, so you’d need either custom code to hide prices at the variant level or use an app built for ‘call for price’ functionality.

3

Hello @shopify_noob ,

I hope you are doing well!

You’re absolutely right — in platforms like Shopify, tags can only be added to products, not to individual variants. That’s why a solution that relies on tags to hide the price of simple (non-variant) products doesn’t extend naturally to products with variants.

If you want to hide prices based on specific product variants, here is the approach which you could consider:

  • In Shopify Admin:
  • Go to Settings > Custom Data > Variants.
  • Add a new metafield definition (e.g. hide_price as a boolean or string).
  • Assign the metafield to the relevant variant(s):
  • Go to the product.
  • Select the variant.
  • Scroll to “Metafields” and set hide_price = true (or whatever you choose).
  • In your theme code (usually product.liquid or wherever you’re outputting the variant price):
{% if current_variant.metafields.custom.hide_price != true %}
  <span class="price">{{ current_variant.price | money }}</span>
{% else %}
  <span class="price hidden">Contact us for pricing</span>
{% endif %}

I hope my respone will help you.