When will variable pricing be added to Shopify?

Retail & Point of Sale

Topic summary

Multiple merchants are requesting native variable pricing functionality in Shopify POS, particularly for products sold by weight (candy, fiber, yarn) or items with fluctuating individual prices (comics, trading cards, screws). This feature has been requested since at least 2020 but remains unavailable.

Current workarounds:

  • Third-party apps exist for quantity breaks and weight-based pricing, though some don’t work with all Shopify plans (e.g., Shopify Go)
  • Creating multiple product variants for different weights/prices (time-consuming)
  • Using custom sale items (loses analytics and sales reporting)

Key frustrations:

  • Merchants must pay $129+/month for Shopify, then additional fees for apps to achieve basic retail functionality available free on competing platforms like Square
  • The feature already exists for gift cards, suggesting the code is available
  • Lack of this feature creates operational stress for staff and complicates inventory tracking
  • Shopify has not responded to years of requests, leading some to consider switching platforms

Status: No official updates or timeline provided by Shopify as of September 2024. Discussion remains unresolved with growing merchant dissatisfaction.

Summarized with AI on November 1. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I get that you want a feature. I also get that Shopify is extremely opaque
about how they make decisions to remove features and their roadmap for
planned features. It’s like shouting into the void. But yes, part of what
you’re paying the base amount for is for a platform that has excellent
extendability and a huge ecosystem of apps. Do you complain that iOS or
Android don’t give you every feature and that you have to pay for apps?

On the other hand, specifically with regards to POS functionality, the API
is pretty lacking so that it’s currently difficult to impossible for
certain missing functionality and features to be achieved through apps.