How do I add variants to my products in Shopify / DSer

Technical Q&A
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Topic summary

Problem: A Shopify newcomer selling one product (flags) with ~40 variants (countries) cannot map variants via the DS app (DSer) to AliExpress. When adding variants in DSer, an error limits them to only 2 variants (screenshot referenced), blocking their intended setup.

Context: Each flag is supplied by the same AliExpress vendor, but the vendor has a separate listing per country. The store owner wants to link all these listings to one Shopify product so each country appears as a selectable variant.

Impact: Orders aren’t auto-fulfilled through DSer; the seller must manually place orders on AliExpress for each customer, defeating the intended automation.

Key questions:

  • How to add more than 2 variants in DSer for a single Shopify product?
  • How to map multiple AliExpress listings (one per country) to one Shopify product/variant set?
  • How to restore automated fulfillment once the mappings are correct?

Status: No answers yet; the original poster bumped the thread seeking assistance. The attached image is central, showing the “only allowed to add 2 variants” error.

Summarized with AI on December 24. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi all, firstly thank you for any assistance you can provide.

I am a complete newbie to shopify and online stores, so please bare with me :slightly_smiling_face:

I have my website, aussieflagz.com.au and I sell a “single product” but I have about 40 variants of that product I want to offer, essentially I sell country flags and want to sell each country.

I have a problem with the linking of my product to Aliexpress via the DS app.

I have my Shopify product linked via DS app to Aliexpress and when I try to add all my variants in DS it tells me I am only allowed to add 2 variants. (see screenshot error).

Right now my orders are not working, they come to me and I need to manually fulfill (I have to manually order in Aliexpress and send to the customer, instead of it been automated in my shop).

Each of the flags I want to offer on my site are sold by one vendor that I want to use (because I have ordered / tested their products and also dealt with them and good service). but they have an individual Aliexpress listing for each of their products - so I need to link each product to my site somehow) .

thanks again

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Hi all - bump - just seeing if theres any assistance, cheers :slightly_smiling_face: