TL:DR; How to bulk assign shipping packages Not sure if this belongs here, but it definitely does not fit elsewhere. When setting up products for clients, how does everyone handle assigning packages for shipping? I have 900 products, and each may or may not have packaging dimensions available per…

It’s not possible right now with the API which is extremely frustrating.

Hey folks :waving_hand: - hopefully I’m understanding correctly, but this should possible through the GraphQL Admin API as of version 2026-07. A saved package can be assigned to a variant’s inventory item using measurement.shippingPackageId, and larger catalogs can process these assignments through a…

Ahh yes, you’re correct. However, for my use case there’s still a major gap as we have no way of obtaining the relevant shipping package IDs to set in the first place. Even the object that it seems to accept is not available in the schema.

@DavidT On the missing IDs, have you tried assigning one package by hand in the admin and then reading measurement back on that variant’s inventory item? If the shippingPackageId comes back on read, you have a lookup table for the whole catalog after setting each box size up once, and the bulk write…

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DavidT August 31, 2026, 3:51pm 6

The problem is it’s not readable in the API. I’ve reported this gap already here.

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