Select Brand first, than model

Store Design

Topic summary

A merchant needs to organize approximately 50 product variants for a single item (“Product XY”) that are customized for different motorcycle models. The variants follow a naming pattern: brand A model A1, brand A model A2, brand B model B1, etc.

Challenge:

  • Listing all 50 variants in one product creates poor user experience
  • Separating into multiple products causes duplicate content issues
  • Customer needs to select brand first, then corresponding model for better navigation

Solution Found:
Dylan_Hunt suggested using Shopify’s Linked Options feature to create a hierarchical selection process. The original poster confirmed success using a GitHub solution for hiding unavailable options (Shopify-Hide-Unavailable-Options by JonoHall).

Status: Resolved - merchant implemented a working solution for cascading variant selection.

Summarized with AI on November 6. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hello,

I am looking for a solution to the following problem. I have a product “Product XY”. The customer can choose from about 50 variants, which are customised for his bike model. The individual variants are always named according to the same pattern, e.g. brand A model A1, brand A model A2,… brand B model B1, brand B model B2,…brand C model C1 etc.

I don’t want to list these 50 variants in one product. From the customer’s perspective, it makes more sense to first select the desired brand and then the corresponding model for a better overview.

How can this be organised? A separation into several products makes no sense, e.g. duplicate content etc.

Thank you for your help.

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Linked Options may be the best solution to try before doing anything too complex.

https://community.shopify.com/post/615156

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Thank you for your reply. This has worked in my case https://github.com/JonoHall/Shopify-Hide-Unavailable-Options/tree/Dawn-15