Create a product with variants in Shopify Admin API

domain: shopify.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed

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Steps

Use the Admin GraphQL API (REST is legacy as of 2024+): POST /admin/api/{version}/graphql.json
Call productCreate mutation with title and productOptions
Use productVariantsBulkCreate for the variants with option values
Publish to the Online Store sales channel via publishablePublish

Known gotchas

New products are unpublished by default — they won't appear on the storefront until published to a channel
GraphQL cost-based rate limiting: 100 points/s standard; bulk mutations are cheaper than per-variant calls
API version is required in the URL and versions are deprecated quarterly

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