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:
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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.
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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.