Common task · estimated 1 business day
Shopify variants in a tangle? Options, prices, SKUs, images — set up right.
The wrong price on one size. Photos that don’t switch with the color. “Unavailable” on combinations you definitely stock. Variant problems are fiddly, customer-facing, and very fixable.
Scope-based proposal first — you approve and pay, then work starts.
Product Variants & Options Setup
Either the data side or the theme side — whichever one is actually broken.
What’s included
- Set up or repair variants and options for up to 20 products — option structure, prices, SKUs, variant images
- Or fix one broken variant selector or variant-image behavior in the theme
- Guidance if your need exceeds Shopify’s variant limits — apps and workarounds recommended, honestly
Not included
- More than 20 products — quoted as custom work, by volume
- Building custom-options apps or bundles — custom quote
- Product data entry from scratch — descriptions, photography
The diagnosis
Variant problems come in two shapes
Before anything gets fixed, it matters which side is broken — the product data, or the theme that displays it. Telling those apart is the first thing I do, because fixing the wrong one wastes your money.
Shape one · the data
The variants themselves are wrong
Options structured backwards (color under size when it should be size under color), prices that drifted between variants, missing SKUs that wreck your inventory exports, images not assigned to the variants they show. I restructure and repair up to 20 products — carefully, because variants connect to inventory and order history.
Shape two · the theme
The data is fine, the display is broken
The selector shows options that don’t switch the price, the image doesn’t follow the chosen color, sold-out combinations look buyable, or swatches died after a theme update. That’s theme code — fixed on a duplicated theme, previewed by you before it publishes.
About Shopify’s variant limits: if what you sell genuinely needs more options than Shopify allows, no amount of setup fixes that. Part of this task is telling you so — with a straight recommendation for the apps or workarounds that fit, even though building those is a separate, custom-quoted job.
How this works
Five steps, and you check the work before it goes live
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You describe the problem in plain English.
“The blue shirts show the red photo” is a complete brief.
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I figure out what actually needs to change.
Data or theme — you’re never billed for your own guess being wrong.
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It happens safely on a copy first.
Theme fixes run on a duplicated, unpublished theme. Your live store keeps selling, untouched.
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You see it before it goes live.
Preview link, your approval, then publish. Nothing ships without your eyes on it.
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If it breaks, I fix it free.
Thirty days, no argument — and the handover note tells you exactly what changed and how to roll it back.
Describe the problem in plain English. I’ll figure out what actually needs to change, do it safely on a copy of your store first, show you before anything goes live, and fix it free if it breaks.
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Delivered as proposed, or made right. If work misses the proposal, I fix it free — and refund anything I can't make match.
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30-day warranty. Defects in my delivered work, fixed free.
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One clear proposal. The price is based on project scope and agreed before work starts.
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Your live store stays untouched. All work on an unpublished theme copy — you preview and approve before anything goes live.
Scope-based proposal first — you approve and pay, then work starts.
Not sure it fits? Ask in chat — I’ll tell you straight if it’s not a fit.
If this isn’t quite it
Fix Broken Theme Layout
If the whole product page is broken — not just the selector — start here.
est. 1 business day
Custom Theme Section Build
Need the product page to show something your theme can’t? Build it.
est. 1–2 business days
App Install & Configuration
Going the options-app route instead? I’ll set it up properly.
est. 1 business day
Beyond these tasks: I also build custom Shopify apps — my flagship work — plus integrations, redesigns, and bigger builds. See all services.
The proposal you approve is the whole price — scoped in writing before work starts, so there’s nothing to negotiate at the door.