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Adding Product Variants To Site

Many products come in different variations—such as size, color, or style—commonly referred to as "variation families." This article explains how Spark Shipping processes product variations and how they appear in your shopping cart platform.

Product Variations and Vendor Feeds:
Vendors often list products that belong to the same variation family (e.g., a t-shirt available in multiple sizes or colors). However, when Spark Shipping imports product data from vendor feeds, it may not have access to the necessary relationships that identify which products belong to the same variation group.

Because of this limitation, Spark Shipping treats each product as a standalone item during the import process.

How Products Are Pushed to Shopping Carts:

Spark Shipping does not support grouping products into variation families (also known as parent/child or configurable products) when pushing listings to shopping carts. Instead, each variation (e.g., "Red T-Shirt - Medium", "Red T-Shirt - Large") is pushed as an individual product listing.

What This Means for You:

  • Products with variations will appear as separate items in your store.
  • There will be no parent/child or grouped product structure created by Spark Shipping.
  • If your platform requires or supports variation grouping, this setup will need to be managed manually or through another tool.

Supporting Tools for Shopify

If you are using Shopify and want more control over how product variations and vendor feeds are handled, you can use third-party tools alongside Spark Shipping to enhance your workflow:

🔹 Merge.io

Merge.io specializes in unifying and transforming product data. It can help you:

  • Consolidate vendor feeds into structured product families.

  • Normalize data across multiple suppliers.

  • Maintain relationships between product variations so that they can be properly grouped in your store.

This allows you to feed Spark Shipping cleaner, variation-ready data.

🔹 Matrixify (Excelify)

Matrixify is a powerful Shopify app for bulk data management. It can help you:

  • Import, export, and update products in bulk using spreadsheets.

  • Rebuild parent/child product structures after Spark Shipping pushes them as individual SKUs.

  • Manage collections, metafields, and advanced attributes that Shopify’s native import/export does not fully support.

Matrixify acts as a corrective layer, giving you the flexibility to reorganize your product catalog into proper variation groups post-import.