Hi everyone, I’m seeing inconsistent behavior with the Admin GraphQL API when querying productVariants using a collection filter, and I wanted to report it to see if others have encountered the same issue or if there’s something I might be missing. Issue Description When sending the exact same pro…

Hi @RorySeka I can confirm that this is a known issue that our developers are aware of, filtering by collection on productVariant queries and connectors. We do have an ongoing thread for this here, so I will be closing this thread and you can follow along here instead for updates: productVariant…

Hi @Chris_Geelhoed , Just to confirm, is your concern with the query cost? If so I’ve tested this on my own store, with a productVariants query that returns the expected amount of variants, and a collections query that returns the same amount of variants. As we can see in the examples below, the ac…

Hi Kellan, Thanks for the additional insight on this. I appreciate your example, but those queries make some assumptions that app developers can’t make in production apps. Let’s say that an app needs to get all the product variants from a collection in pages, 250 at a time. In the productVariant…

Hi @Chris_Geelhoed , I’ll respond to the various points you raised individually for clarity: [image] Chris_Geelhoed: Your query assumes that there is 1 product variant in a product. When querying an arbitrary collection, this is an assumption app devs cannot make. There could be 1 to 2048 varia…

Inconsistent results from Admin GraphQL productVariants query with collection filter

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Chris_Geelhoed January 10, 2026, 1:28am 3

Hi @Kellan-Shopify I appreciate your time on this issue but want to note that the workaround you have suggested is not a dependable solution for the reasons shared here: productVariants GraphQL endpoint incorrect results - #7 by Chris_Geelhoed

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Inconsistent results from Admin GraphQL productVariants query with collection filter

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