What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

[claudrolet]

What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

[ashc]

Hi @claudrolet! Welcome to the Community! 

How many variations were you trying to put with each item? 

[claudrolet]

Hi,

I need to get the answer so it’ll confirm how I will set up my dashboard.

Thanks.

[ashc · Accepted solution]

@claudrolet I reached out to someone on our Product team and it looks like the maximum number of variations per item is 250!

[claudrolet]

Thanks very much for your prompt reply.

[ashc]

@claudrolet Any time! 👍

[Healhaven]

Question - could the number of variations per item be increased above 250?

[isabelle]

Hey @Healhaven-

Thanks for posting in the Seller Community.

You are correct, as of right now the maximum number of variations is 250. I will pass your feature request along to the appropriate team to see if we have any plans to increase that number/limit.

Thanks again! 🌟

[Drschnei]

We would also like this option. We have 32 flavors of ice cream and cannot allow someone to pick two different flavors for a cone. Having 2 options each with all the flavors exceeds the 250 maximum. 

This is such a basic thing and because of this Square won’t won’t for us.

[MattHebb1995]

I am very curious what you are doing that needs so many variations and my question is would this not lead to a massive drop down menu for the customer to navigate? I am sure you have a reason I am just curious haha

[frameofmind]

I have this issue, i own an art supply store, and some of our products have up to 500 different color options! it is sooo frustrating!! we have to make everything it's own item because we can't really split the colors to make sense 😞

[Saffron]

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: Is there a way to get more then 250 variants?

I need to use more then 250 variants. Modifiers wouldn't work as i would like to add pictures to it. Can i have more the 250 in a premium setting?  

[Valentina]

This is considered a feature request, @Saffron. I've moved your post over to this thread where others have asked for this same thing, so that you will be notified if we post an update into this thread.  To be able to provide a bit more clarity - and possibly some advice - what kind of variations are you adding to a single item that you need over 250?

[JanomeCentral]

Hi Valentina,

We are currently having issues syncing our custom cart to Squareup because we have also reached a maximum limit of 250 variations, we need this updated to it'll render the system useless.

We have threads that come in 450 different colours, all of which have their own image and SKU.

Who can I speak to regarding this to get it resolved asap?

Thanks

[Valentina]

Hi @JanomeCentral - and thanks for posting here in the Seller Community! ✨

The maximum number of item variations is still 250. Have you considered breaking up your 450 threads into smaller groups?

For example:

• Different thread types
• Separate by color - blues, reds, yellows, other colors
• Brand
   

Could a setup like one of those possibly work for your business?

[JanomeCentral]

Hi Valentina,

Thanks for your response and apologies for the late reply.

I'll ask our client about this as at the moment it was working great on the cart by selecting a variant without the need to create separate products.

To be honest, this is very basic on any cart and should already be integrated for those using Squareup.

Can you tell me how long the featured request has been sitting waiting to be actioned and if there is going to be an increase shortly?

I'm sure 500 max would be suffice for most stores, saying that I do think 450 was a lot myself but it's an issue that exists either way.

Thanks

[tadhite]

I run into this problem A LOT.  We sell uniforms and clothing.   On one pair of police pants they come in 12 colors, 14 waist sizes and 4 different inseams.  I don't want to break it out into multiple products by color because the SKUs are linked to our Woocommerce site and I don't want all the extra products, it gets too confusing for the buyers.

[Disco123]

We are also running into this problem, We have a product that is for fabric remnants and has many everchanging variations. We need more variations available.

[Kassi_]

Thank you for coming to the Community, @Disco123. 

I appreciate your time for asking about this Feature Request for more variations for your items. 

This will get escalated to our Product Team, so they can look into this for the future. 

[Disco123]

We have a fabric store and need the ability to have hundreds of variations of color for products. I do not want to break up products into smaller groups, I want Square to allow us the ability to have as many variations of color for each product as we want. Why are there limits???

As well, Square limits the number of colors that we can enter as options, so we can not even enter all the color options of our color library into the color options set. This is preventing us from using Square POS. When will this be addressed?

[Arie]

Hi @Disco123,

Thanks for writing in with this question!

The reason there are limitations to how many variations and options can be created is that performance slows down when this number is exceeded. While I wouldn't rule out that we'll be able to support a larger number of variations in the future, it doesn't look like this is currently on our roadmap. 

If this is a feature you'd like to see on your point of sale, please head over to our feature request board to submit this suggestion to our team. It's really useful for us to know how you'd like to use this in your day-to-day in your business, and this also allows other sellers looking for the same feature to add their voices, and votes, to why this is needed.

 Additionally, you can apply to be a beta tester via these steps. Beta testers get invited to test out new features in the lead-up to their launch. 

As always, feel free to stop by The Community with questions, concerns and even feature requests. We are more than happy to assist. ✨