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.