Why does my product variant name keep defaulting to size?

Store Design

Topic summary

Product variant option name keeps reverting to “Size” instead of allowing custom labels like “Flavor” or “Finishing.” This affects setting options such as “house blend” or “breakfast blend.”

Observed behavior:

  • Renaming the variant option to “Flavor” immediately defaults back to “Size.”
  • Trying presets (e.g., “Style”) and then changing to “Flavor” still reverts to the preset name.
  • Closing/reopening the product and creating a new test product does not resolve it.

Context:

  • “Variant option” refers to the attribute label customers use to choose among product variations (e.g., size, color, flavor).
  • “Presets” appear to be default option names provided by the platform.

Current status:

  • No solution or workaround is reported.
  • A second participant confirms similar needs (wants “Finishing” as the variant label) and asks if a fix was found.

Outcome:

  • Issue remains open with no confirmed resolution; users seek guidance on allowing custom variant option names.
Summarized with AI on December 30. AI used: gpt-5.
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I’m trying to add variants to a product. I need to add a variant for “flavor” and then list things like “house blend”, “breakfast blend”, etc.

Every time I create the variant option, and try to name it “flavor” it defaults it back to size. I tried setting it to one of the other presets like “style” and then tried tying in “flavor” but it’ll just revert it back to that option name.

I’ve closed the product and went back in, but it keeps doing this. I even tried creating a new test product to troubleshoot but it keeps doing the same thing.

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@ebo8302 Did you ever find a solution to this? I’ve been looking for this as well. I’m wanting to the variant to say “Finishing”.