# Shopify - Create product variant

This action creates a product variant in Shopify.

PRODUCT VARIANT RESOURCE DEPRECATION NOTICE

Listing, creating, updating, and deleting product variants is deprecated as of Shopify REST API version 2024-04. For more information, refer to the guide to the new product model (opens new window).

# Input

Field Description
Product ID The unique numeric identifier for the product.
Option 1 The custom properties that a shop owner uses to define product variants. You can define up to three options for a product variant.
Option 2 The custom properties that a shop owner uses to define product variants. You can define up to three options for a product variant.
Option 3 The custom properties that a shop owner uses to define product variants. You can define up to three options for a product variant.
Image ID The unique numeric identifier for a product's image. The image must be associated to the same product as the variant.
Price The price of the product variant.
Barcode The barcode, UPC, or ISBN number for the product.
Compare at price The original price of the item before an adjustment or a sale.
Taxable Select from the picklist or input your own value. Select yes to charge tax when the product variant is sold.
Requires shipping Select from the picklist or input your own value.
Weight The weight of the product variant.
Weight unit Unit can be either 'g', 'kg', 'oz', or 'lb'
Inventory management Select whether to track number of items in stock for this product variant

# Output

Field Description
ID The unique numeric identifier for the product variant.
Product ID The unique numeric identifier for the product.
Barcode The barcode, UPC, or ISBN number for the product.
Compare at price The original price of the item before an adjustment or a sale.
Fulfillment service The fulfillment service associated with the product variant. Valid values: manual or the handle of a fulfillment service.
Grams The weight of the product variant in grams.
Inventory management The fulfillment service that tracks the number of items in stock for the product variant.
Inventory policy Whether customers are allowed to place an order for the product variant when it's out of stock.
Position The order of the product variant in the list of product variants. The first position in the list is 1.
Price The price of the product variant.
Requires shipping Note: Shopify API states that this property is deprecated. Use the requires_shipping property on the InventoryItem resource instead.
Taxable Whether a tax is charged when the product variant is sold.
Title The title of the product variant. The title field is a concatenation of the option1, option2, and option3 fields. You can only update title indirectly using the option fields.
Old inventory quantity (deprecated) Note: Shopify API states that this property is deprecated. Use the InventoryLevel resource instead.
Image ID The unique numeric identifier for a product's image. The image must be associated to the same product as the variant.
Weight The weight of the product variant.
Weight unit Unit can be either 'g', 'kg', 'oz', or 'lb'
Option 1 Custom variants of the product defined in options.
Option 2 Custom variants of the product defined in options.
Option 3 Custom variants of the product defined in options.
Sku A unique identifier for the product variant in the shop. Required to connect to a FulfillmentService.
Inventory quantity (deprecated) An aggregate of inventory across all locations.
Inventory item ID The unique identifier for the inventory item, which is used in the Inventory API to query for inventory information.
Created at The date and time when the product variant was created.
Updated at The date and time when the product variant was last updated.


Last updated: 7/10/2024, 3:22:21 PM

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