Shopify - Variation Limit

Understanding the Shopify Variation Limit

Shopify imposes limits on variant uploads to maintain platform performance and ensure a consistent experience for all merchants. Specifically, if your Shopify store has 50,000 or more variants, a daily rate limit applies for uploading additional variants.

Variant Upload Limits:

  • Standard Shopify plans (Non-Plus):

    • If your store has 50,000 or more existing variants, you can only add up to 1,000 new variants per day using apps or CSV file imports.
  • Shopify Plus plans:

    • No daily rate limit applies, meaning you can upload more than 1,000 variants per day, regardless of the number of existing variants.

Key Points:

  • This daily rate limit specifically applies to variant uploads performed through apps or CSV imports.
  • Stores with fewer than 50,000 variants are not subject to this daily limit.
  • Manual variant additions through the Shopify admin interface are not affected by this daily rate limit.

For more detailed information, please refer directly to Shopify's official documentation on adding variants.