Listing products in multiple collections with different variants

Shopify Discussion
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Hi there-

We have a product that has 8 variants, this product is listed in one collection. We want to have this product show up in two more collections. Our issue is that only 4 variants apply to the two other collections.

How do we have this product list and appear in multiple collections, but only show the applicable variants on the other two collections?

Ted

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You would either need to make duplicate products with just those applicable variants and add that product to the other two collections.

Then generally use a backend app to sync inventory.

Or see if the navigation redirects will let you point duplicate product’s url to the original prime product (I haven’t tested this in a while so don’t recall the behavior).

And also probably hide those duplicate products from the store search , and search engines.

Otherwise it’s an advanced theme customization to present different variants than the products first_available_variant that themes adhere to for sanity.

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Go to your Shopify admin and open the product page for the product that has 8 variants.

Add a tag to each variant that specifies which collections it should appear in. For example, you could use tags like “collection1”, “collection2”, and “collection3” to indicate where each variant should appear.

Go to each of the collections where you want the product to appear.

Edit the collection and add a filter to only show the variants that have the corresponding tag. For example, if you want to show the product in collection1 and collection2, you would add a filter to show variants with the “collection1” and “collection2” tags.

Save the changes to the collection and the product should now appear in the correct collections with the appropriate variants showing.

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Ended up doing a trial of Connected Inventory and it works well.

5

Hi there.
this solution is a genius workaround!

however im not able to find any place to add Tags to the specific variants.
I only see a place for tags for the entire overall listing.

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We’re also having this issue.

Can you explain how you add tags to each variant please?