Non existing variants do exist in Buy Button both in single and catalog display

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user is experiencing an issue where the Shopify Buy Button displays all product variants for a group, including those that were manually removed.

After removing unwanted variants from a product group (e.g., “Alu-Bauwinkenl” with ~20 variants) using the “Remove Variants” function, the Buy Button still shows all variants as clickable options. Users can select these removed variants only to discover they’re marked as “Unavailable.”

In contrast, the Shopify storefront correctly displays only available products under the parent category (“Aluminium”).

The user has already tried separating group elements into different products, but this approach produces the same problem with fewer unwanted options. They’re seeking:

  • Potential coding solutions
  • Alternative optimization methods
  • Confirmation whether this is expected behavior or a bug

Two screenshots are referenced showing the variant configuration and the problematic Buy Button display. The issue remains unresolved with no responses yet.

Summarized with AI on October 24. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Placing variables for any products and removing not wanted ones from the each Group, causes buy Button to display all removed variants for that Group.

For example I have 20-ish Product variants and for “Alu-Bauwinkenl” I have manually removed not wanted variants by ticking and “Remove Variants”. After checking the web page for Buy Button, as the second screenshot shows, all the variants can be clickable only for user to find out it is “Unavaliable”.

Shopify storefront works just fine by showing all avaliable products under the parent name (“Aluminium” for below demonstration)

Is there a coding I need to do or is there a more optimal way that I am missing other than separating all the “Group” elements into different products. This also has the exact same problem only with less unwanted option.