Can GraphQL be used to create new products and their variants?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Issue: Users are encountering errors when attempting to create products with multiple variants using Shopify’s GraphQL productVariantsBulkCreate mutation.

Error Details:

  • The mutation returns: “The option doesn’t exist”
  • Error occurs when trying to create variants with option values (e.g., Color: Red, Material: Silk)
  • Problem persists in API version 2024-04

Attempted Solutions:

  • Following official Shopify documentation examples
  • Trying different approaches including adding "strategy": "REMOVE_STANDALONE_VARIANT"
  • None have resolved the issue

Current Status: The discussion remains unresolved with multiple users experiencing the same problem. No working solution or explanation has been provided yet for why the documented approach fails.

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Hi Omar Hernandez,

I have the same problem with version 2024-04.. any solution?
even adding: “strategy”: “REMOVE_STANDALONE_VARIANT”

Thank’s