Single item, multiple variation updating

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Topic summary

Seller has 3,000 one-of-a-kind artworks, each offered with 5 variants (unframed + 4 frame types). They need inventory to behave as a single unit per artwork: when any one variant sells (e.g., unframed or a specific frame), the entire product and all variants should be marked sold out.

Goal: Implement shared inventory across variants for unique items so a sale of any option zeroes stock for all options of that artwork.

Seeking: A native Shopify setting, workflow, or app to sync variant inventory and prevent overselling across the framing options.

Latest update: The thread was flagged as a duplicate and redirected to an existing post with an accepted solution via a provided link.

Status: Redirected; no solution details provided in this thread. Outcome depends on guidance in the linked accepted solution.

Summarized with AI on January 23. AI used: gpt-5.
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I’m selling 3,000 original artworks. There is a single version of each of them. I’m offering 4 framing options. I’ve created 5 variations (1 x unframed, 4 x different frame types).

I want my Shopify inventory to mark the whole product as sold whne any single variation option is taken.

Example 1; when someone buys artwork number 0003 and chooses the ‘unframed’ option in my variations, then the product (including all variations) is marked as ‘sold out’.

Example 2: when someone buys artwork number 0003 and chooses the ‘Shadow Box Frame’ option in my variations, then the product (including all variations) is marked as ‘sold out’.

Any help or apps would be really appreciated.

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Hello @dwliston

It looks like your post is duplicated. You can find an accepted solution here

https://community.shopify.com/topic/1329033