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Goal: Build a small storefront for custom phone case designs, offering the same designs across ~60 phone models (iPhone, Samsung, Pixel) and allowing users to upload their own designs. Current UI feels poor, and the 100-variant-per-product limit blocks a variant-based setup.

Key constraint: The platform’s (Shopify) 100-variant limit prevents listing all model/design combinations as variants.

Suggested approach:

  • Use a custom product options/customizer app instead of native variants.
  • Examples: Custom Product Builder, Product Personalizer, Inkybay.
  • Flow: Customer selects phone model via a custom option (not a variant), then chooses a design or uploads an image.
  • Benefit: Apps can auto-generate print-ready files and handle thousands of permutations without hitting the 100-variant limit.

Outcome: Original poster confirmed this solution was exactly what they needed.

Status: Resolved. Action item is to implement a custom product options/customizer app.

Note: An attached image illustrated the current UI, but the resolution centers on app-based customization rather than redesigning variants.

Summarized with AI on December 11. AI used: gpt-5.
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I previously stated that I’m trying to set up a little site for my kids so that they can Sell custom phone designs or allow people to upload their own design.

As you can see from the design below it looks like sh!t, I was thinking about uploading the designs and then doing a drop down list But because you’re only allowed 100 variants per product I’m not sure if that’s going to work.

There’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 different phone types between iPhone Samsung and Pixel and I wanna let anyone to have access to the same designs no mater what phone type you have.

For example if you had a Galaxy S25 or an Iphone X And you are a Blue Jays fan Then you could get the same design. I also want to give the client the ability to upload one of their own designs so that we can give the people what they want :slight_smile:

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Does anyone have any suggestions how I can make this look pretty or could point me in the direction of a site that has the same issue so I can be inspired?

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You should use a custom product option app in this case.

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Hello MITK

Make use of product customizer app for this Apps like Custom Product Builder, Product Personalizer, or Inkybay allow customers to upload their own images or select from pre-made designs without hitting the variant limit

It will actually help in:

  1. Customers select their phone model from a dropdown (not a variant)
  2. Then they either pick a design OR upload their own image
  3. The app generates the print-ready file automatically
  4. These apps support thousands of variant permutations without hitting Shopify’s 100-variant limit
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thank you very much this was exactly what i needed.

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