Variants Won't Stay In The Correct Order on Website

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Multiple users report that product variants are not maintaining their manually set order when displayed on their Shopify storefronts, despite appearing correctly in the Shopify admin panel. The reordering doesn’t follow any apparent pattern (alphabetical, price-based, etc.) and affects only certain products.

Key Issue:

  • Variants display correctly in Shopify backend
  • Order scrambles when viewed on the live website
  • Problem persists even after manual reordering and saving

Affected Users:

  • One user specifically mentions the Flow theme experiencing this issue
  • Variants revert to scrambled order immediately after hitting “Save”

Current Status:

  • No resolution has been found
  • One community member requested screenshots to diagnose the issue
  • Multiple users suggest this may be a platform-wide programming bug
  • Request made to escalate to technical support
  • Discussion remains open with no solution provided
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I manually create our products in Shopify and many have variants. My problem is the order of the variants changes when it reaches our website. Doesn’t seem to be alphabetical or by price or any specific reason that I can see and not all products are affected. When I view it from Shopify it shows the variants in correct order but if view directly from website they aren’t.

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Hi @Farmer3 It seems little awkward as usually the variant will show in the same manner as we have defined them in the shopify product admin, Can you please provide some Screenshot that how it is appearing and how do you want them to appear on your store.

Also please provide the screenshot of that product admin that how you have defined it in the backend of shopify.

If can provide the screenshot then I will be able to provide you better help.

Best Regards

Sahil

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I am having the same issue on my Flow theme with a few of my variants even after I moved them around, hit “Done” it looks great then when I hit “Save” it goes back to it being all scrambled. So annoying.

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Hey, did you get anywhere with this? I’m in the same boat!

5

Not at all. So frustrating.

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I too am having the same issue and I’ve noticed plenty of other people are having it as well. Can you please bump this up to tech support. It would appear to be a programming bug.