Product variant added

The Product variant added trigger starts a workflow when a user in your organization or a third-party app adds a variant to an existing product.

Note

Workflows using the Product variant added trigger start when a new product is added to the Shopify admin because adding a new product creates a single default variant.

This trigger affects variants created by any method, such as adding a new product, creating variants in existing products, duplicating variants, or bulk actions.

Actions

Any action that requires a variant or a product can be used with the Product variant added trigger. These include:

• Add product tags
• Add product to collections
• Create redirect URL
• Delete redirect URLs
• Publish product
• Remove product from collections
• Remove product metafield
• Remove product tags
• Unpublish product

• Update product metafield

• Remove product variant metafield

• Update product metafield

• Update product variant metafield

Testing the Product variant added trigger

To test a workflow that starts with this trigger, add a variant to an existing product.

API details

The Product variant added trigger allows actions to be taken with the ProductVariant Graphql API object.

Templates

Send email notification when variant is added with duplicate SKU

When a new variant is added, looks to see if any other variants use the same SKU. If so, it sends an internal email with links to the products and variants affected. View template