Card #553 · Shopify App Store
Hidden limits on product variants and daily creation
Merchants are encountering undocumented limits of 50,000 total variants and a daily creation cap of 1,000 variants. This lack of transparency causes significant wasted effort for those automating product imports via API, sometimes forcing them to consider switching platforms due to high costs to lift the limits.
Pain score
0.25/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.67distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement1.00upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization1.00willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 4 verified quotes
Now I find out about this 50K variant limit and then 1K a day after that.
you are referring to the 50k limit where they limit daily creation to 1000 variants I am assuming.
AI is saying there is a 50K variant limit, and then they throttle you to 1000 variant changes or new variants a day.
I have told them many times this isn't transparent in the slighest but they have yet to do anything about it.
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