Inventory, tax, shipping and customs
Bulk edit inventory tracking, selling when out of stock, tax, physical product flag, customs data, weight and unit price.
These variant fields change settings that live on each variant. All of them can be limited with Apply to variants, and all can be reverted.
Inventory tracked
Section titled “Inventory tracked”Choose Track quantity or Don’t track quantity. Turning tracking off lets a variant be sold without a stock count.
Continue selling when out of stock
Section titled “Continue selling when out of stock”Choose Continue selling when out of stock or Stop selling when out of stock. This is Shopify’s inventory policy for the variant.
Charge tax
Section titled “Charge tax”Choose Charge tax or Don’t charge tax.
Is physical product
Section titled “Is physical product”Choose Physical product (requires shipping) or Digital product (no shipping).
Country code of origin
Section titled “Country code of origin”Edit methods: Replace entire text or Set to null/blank. With Replace entire text, pick the country from the searchable list. The code is stored as a two-letter ISO code such as US, VN or CN and is used for customs and duties.
Province code of origin
Section titled “Province code of origin”Edit methods: Replace entire text or Set to null/blank. Pick the province or state from the list. This value is used when the country of origin is United States, Canada or Australia.
Harmonized System (HS) code
Section titled “Harmonized System (HS) code”Uses the text edit methods plus Set to null/blank. Enter a numeric code of 6 to 13 digits, for example 610910. Values shorter than six digits or containing letters are rejected.
Weight
Section titled “Weight”| Edit method | Inputs |
|---|---|
| Set to fixed value (default) | Value |
| Decrease by percentage | Value (%) |
| Increase by percentage | Value (%) |
| Decrease by amount | Value |
| Increase by amount | Value |
| Change weight unit only | none, only the unit changes |
| Set to null/blank | clears the weight |
The Weight unit list offers Don’t change unit, g, kg, oz and lb. Rounding offers Round to nearest .01 and Round to nearest whole number.
Unit price
Section titled “Unit price”Sets the unit price measurement that some regions require (for example price per 100 g).
- Set unit price measurement: enter the Total measurement and its unit (how much the variant contains), and the Reference measurement and its unit (the base amount the unit price is shown for). Both units must belong to the same group: Weight (mg, g, kg), Volume (ml, cl, L, m³), Size (mm, cm, m), Area (m²) or Per item.
- Clear unit price: removes the measurement.
The reference measurement must be a whole number greater than zero.