What to do when exceeding the limit for metaobjects in Shop object?

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Exceeding the Shop.metaobjects limit when using metaobjects to power product color swatches, resulting in the error: “Exceeded the maximum number of unique handles for product_color_swatch_options.”

  • Context: Colors are stored as metaobjects and displayed per product on collection pages; another user needs these metaobject color values for facets.
  • Technical notes: Metaobjects are structured data entries in Shopify; “handles” are their unique identifiers. The reported failure appears tied to a cap on the number of unique metaobject handles retrievable via Shop.metaobjects.
  • Request: The original poster asks what options or workarounds exist to avoid or mitigate this limit.
  • Additional input: A second participant confirms the same issue and expresses frustration, tagging a Shopify representative.

Status: No solutions or official guidance provided in the thread. No decisions or action items. The issue remains open/unresolved, with key question pending: available workarounds or changes to this limit.

Summarized with AI on December 13. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi everyone and @Shopify_77 ,

added my colors to metaobjects. In collection page on each listing I display Product colors. But for my surprise SHOP.METAOBJECTS have limited calls. Getting error message:

Exceeded the maximum number of unique handles for product_color_swatch_options

what options do I have here?

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Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for metaobject handle
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Experienced this too in facets I need to get the value of my meta object colors… @Shopify_77 isnt working on this basic functionality of ecommerce platform. So disappointed!