CSV Product Upload: Variant position?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A user is attempting to control the display order of product variants when uploading via Shopify’s native CSV Product Upload feature.

Issue encountered:

  • Tried using a column named ‘Variant Position’ in the CSV
  • The column was ignored during upload

Context:

  • The Shopify Admin GraphQL API documentation confirms that the Variant object does include a Position field
  • Despite this API capability, the CSV import appears not to support this field

Status: The question remains unresolved, with no solution or workaround provided yet for specifying variant order through CSV uploads.

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Using the native/built-in CSV Product Upload, is it possible to specify the desired display order of the different variants of a product?

I tried with a column named ‘Variant Position’ but got ignored.

According to the API the Variant object does have a Position field.

Thanks