Hi, everytime i add an product and go to Variants and change the sizes (for example i change size M to XS because i want to convert asian sizes to EU). First couple products worked fine but now i get an error everytime i try to change the sizes and it says “Option value already exists” How do i fix …

I already fixed it, somehow you have to change it 1 by 1 and not all at the same time…

Hi Loúdi, Glad you figured this out and thanks for returning to post your solution!

Half the time this error shows up when I had multiple variants and half the time it doesn’t. It’s very frustrating as I’d like it to just not be there in the first place. I’ve been adding multiple variants for the last few months and each upgrade Shopify does messes things up. Finally got the SKU ba…

Why not say what the Option is that is causing the error - this is basic error feedback, which ‘option’ already exists. Even better red highlight the fields in the form causing the issue.

“Solved.” Not. I was getting the “Option value already exists” error when trying to add “Unframed” as a variant to a product that already had framed options. So trying to figure out what “change it 1 by 1” is supposed to mean, I started over by adding just the Variant and saving. When I did that i…

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Here’s the soultion I’ve found. It’s clumsy but seems to work. Add the Variant Click “Save” An error message will show up. Ignore it and … Reload the page. Each variant will now have SKUs that, apparently, the system automatically assigns. Or at least some of the variants will now hav…

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Exactly! Direction would be wonderful.

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