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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.

What This Means for Spark Shipping:

Spark Shipping creates each product in Shopify with a single variant. If your store has 50,000 or more variants and is not on Shopify Plus, Spark Shipping can therefore create about 1,000 new products per day. See also Shopify Product Creation Rate Limit.

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