As per this posting Why why why
I just had a 2025 API App blow chunks and embarrass me because, this. Change.
What is the new API way of updating 20,000 variants in a staged bulk operation when the only API call good for that was deprecated for no good reason???
Anyway have a workaround for this? Seems ridiculous to remove a perfectly functional bulk update option with nothing.
Feel your pain… I learned the hard way also not to blindly update a productive environment without first testing it… still though P.I.N.F.A. for sure
I looked at that. So instead of uploading a file with 20,000 variants and their new prices, and being done, I now need to upload a file with the productID and its variants, repeated ad nauseum.
So that is hardly nice. It seems really bush league actually. Since a productVariant ID completely describes how to get at a variant, without the stupid parent product ID… it just blows the size of my file up by whatever, 20,000 product IDs.
What is that? Drunk monkey computing hehehe.
So now I have to test this out. Write out a new file as a staged upload with each productID now AND all the variants and their new prices, just to see if Shopify in fact does respect this as a bulk update operation. sigh… so much yak shaving.
I totally agree that removing productvariantupdate was just silly, it performed well and there was no need, as you said the variantID is all we need to update it, why bring the productid into it, makes no sense to me either, unless of course in the background datastructure of shopify you need both ids, then it would make sense to farm the work out to us. Still too much Yak shaving (love that saying btw)