Hi there ! I am trying to find a solution to create a product with variant and I am running into multiple issues. My plan is to use the productCreate mutation, then productVariantsBulkCreate with a strategy of REMOVE_STANDALONE_VARIANT. I am probably using it wrong but here is the issue I am havin…

So I am now trying to use the productSet. The variant structure is something new … the sku is not in InventoryItem, the inventory quantity has its own fields, we cannot set measurement. Is this even done by the same team in Shopify? How can the experience to create to product can be that bad?

whats wrong with doing productCreate + productVariantsBulkCreate? I believe the only thing you’re missing is when you do the productCreate you also need to add all of the options so that when you do the productVariantsBulkCreate the options are there to attach to. I am also need to this so not 100…

There is nothing really wrong with it. But when you create the product, we have two choices: We give the list of optionValues and it will create a first variant with the first set of optionValues, we then have to create all the other variants using productVariantsBulkCreate. This is probably what …

This definitely feels like there are pieces missing. We use productCreate to create our new product and first variant. We then track what the first variant options were, and skip that variant when using productVariantsBulkCreate. The problem with this approach is that the initial variant is missi…

Hi @Geoffrey_Brown , One thing that might help is that the productVariantsBulkCreate mutation has a strategy argument which will remove the original product variant for you. This way you can include all the product’s variants, including the first one, in the payload of productVariantsBulkCreate. Th…

shopify tells developer to migrate from rest to graphql and promotes an easy way to migrate using ProductSet. Which would be true, if the same fields are support, but we have to same problem: measurements is missing in productset, which makes everything very very complicated and rate limits and many…

I am now using the productCreate + productVariantsBulkCreate. I first create the product with all optionValues given. As Shopify will automatically create a first variant, but without any data, I update the first variant and set inventory Then I start using productVariantsBulkCreate to create vari…

This is exactly what we had to do. We also have to run inventoryActivate(), as the first variant isn’t automatically associated with our fulfillment. Create Product using productCreate() Identify and update initial variant using productVariantsBulkUpdate() Activate inventory of first variant usin…

I think they should provide us with an answer on how to achieve this safely! [image] ProductSet without measurement New GraphQL Product APIs As already mentioned across several topics, the ProductSet mutation does not provide measurement (inventoryItem) information, which…

@Doud how did you manage to make the update calls - when a product changes or one of its variants? (or did you track all variation ids in your system?)

Creating product with variants

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I think they should provide us with an answer on how to achieve this safely!

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