How to Update Product Variant Options in Shopify (GraphQL API Guide)

Update Options in Product Variants in Shopify is something many developers need to do. This has been a common issue that many of you have encountered lately. And it is entirely understandable, as updating product options in product variants as options fields in GraphQL and Rest API are altogether different.

Steps to Update Options in Product Variants in Shopify

1st Step – Log in to your Shopify Admin panel

2nd Step – Go to the products

3rd Step – Click on the product’s name with the variant name you would like to change.

4th Step – Make appropriate changes in the variant details

5th Step – Click to Save

Or else, you can follow this method where;

We are updating product variants using GraphQL. Here, our primary goal is to send three different options (large, blue, and paper) to the product variant to convert it into one single variant with only one value. Additionally, in REST APIs, it consists of three different options (Option 1, Option 2, and Option 3) with unchanged default titles.

You can consider the following links:

Update Product Variant: productVariantsBulkUpdate API

Update Product: productUpdate mutation

Well, it actually takes an array of strings (), not a single string value. So you need to pass it like that [“Large”, “Blue”, “Paper”], see detailed mutation request below:

Query

mutation productVariantUpdate($input: ProductVariantInput!) { productVariantUpdate(input: $input) {

product {
id
title
handle
}

productVariant {
id,
selectedOptions {
name,
value
}
}
userErrors {
field
message
}
}
}

Variables

{ "input": { "id": "gid://shopify/ProductVariant/12386472609940", "options": ["Small", "Medium", "Large"] } }