What is a product variant?

The thing customers actually buy, and the level at which most of the fields you edit really live.

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A variant is one purchasable version of a product, defined by up to three options such as size, colour or material. A product with three sizes in four colours has twelve variants.

Which fields live where

Product levelVariant level
TitlePrice
DescriptionCompare-at price
VendorCost per item
Product typeSKU and barcode
TagsInventory quantity and policy
StatusWeight
URL handleTaxable flag
SEO title and descriptionOption values

Why this matters for bulk editing

A filter that selects products and an edit that writes to variants are not the same size of job. Selecting 800 products with three variants each means editing 2,400 items, which is what counts against per-task limits.

It also changes what you can target: to discount only the XL sizes, you need variant-level filters on the option value, not a product filter.

Bulk Product Edit by MITS edits this field in bulk across a filtered part of your catalog, with a log and a one-click revert.

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Related reading

Bulk edit inventory on Shopify

Adjust quantities per location with reason codes, switch tracking, and stop overselling.

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Bulk edit prices on Shopify

Set, raise, cut, derive and round Shopify prices across a filtered slice of the catalog.

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What is a SKU?

Your internal variant code — where it is used and what makes a good one.

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