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Product Variant

Product variants allow you to group a shoe with different sizes and colors in the same product. You can only create products with up to 1000 variants.

Properties

PropertyExplanation
idThe unique numeric identifier for the Product Variant
image_idThe id of the product's image associated with the variant
product_idThe id of the product associated with the variant
pricePrice of the Product Variant. null indicates the product will initiate a contact instead of a checkout process
promotional_priceLower price to display as a sale. The value of price will be displayed crossed out for comparison
stock_managementSpecifies whether or not Tiendanube/Nuvemshop tracks the number of items in stock for this product variant. Valid values are true if Tiendanube/Nuvemshop tracks the stock, false if it doesn't.
stockStock of the Product Variant. If stock_management is false the stock will be null
weightWeight of the Product Variant in kilograms
widthWidth of the Product Variant in centimetres
heightHeight of the Product Variant in centimetres
depthDepth of the Product Variant in centimetres
skuUnique identifier of the Product Variant in your store
valuesList of the values of the attributes whose values define the variant. E.g.: Large, Medium, etc. It is important that the number of values is equal to the number of attributes within the products.
barcodeThe value associated with an identifier of the product (GTIN, EAN, ISBN, etc.)
mpnThe Manufacturer Part Number (MPN) of the product
age_groupAttribute to set the demographic that the product is designed for. It is optional and only supports this values: "newborn", "infant", "toddler", "kids" and "adult".
genderAttribute to specify the gender your product is designed for. It is optional and only supports the values: "female", "male" and "unisex"
costCost of getting or producing the product. It is optional and, if present, has to be a number bigger than 0.
created_atDate when the Product Variant was created in ISO 8601 format
updated_atDate when the Product Variant was last updated in ISO 8601 format

Endpoints

GET /products/{product_id}/variants

Receive a list of all Product Variants for a given product.

ParameterExplanation
since_idRestrict results to after the specified ID
created_at_minShow Product Variants created after date (ISO 8601 format)
created_at_maxShow Product Variants created before date (ISO 8601 format)
updated_at_minShow Product Variants last updated after date (ISO 8601 format)
updated_at_maxShow Product Variants last updated before date (ISO 8601 format)
pagePage to show
per_pageAmount of results
fieldsComma-separated list of fields to include in the response

GET /products/1234/variants

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[
{
"id": 101,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Small"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234A",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-03-11T09:14:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.00",
"width": null,
"cost": null
},
{
"id": 112,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Medium"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234B",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-03-11T09:14:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.25",
"width": null,
"cost": null
},
{
"id": 133,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Small"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234C",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-03-11T09:14:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.50",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
}
]

GET /product/1234/variants?since_id=105

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[
{
"id": 112,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Small"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234B",
"mpn": "00638HAY",
"age_group": "adult",
"gender": "unisex",
"updated_at": "2013-03-11T09:14:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.25",
"width": null,
"cost": null
},
{
"id": 133,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Small"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234C",
"mpn": "00638ANG",
"age_group": "adult",
"gender": "unisex",
"updated_at": "2013-03-11T09:14:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.50",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
}
]

GET /products/{product_id}/variants/{id}

Receive a single Product Variant

ParameterExplanation
fieldsComma-separated list of fields to include in the response

GET /products/1234/variants/112

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
"id": 112,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Small"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234B",
"mpn": "LO2302GIU",
"age_group": "adult",
"gender": "female",
"updated_at": "2013-03-11T09:14:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.25",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
}

POST /products/{product_id}/variants

Create a new Product Variant

POST /products/1234/variants

{
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "19.00"
}

HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity

{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "Variants cannot be repeated"
}

HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity

{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "Product is not allowed to have more than 1000 variants"
}
{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "The selected age group is invalid"
}
{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "The selected gender is invalid"
}

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

{
"id": 144,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": null,
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "19.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": false,
"stock": null,
"sku": null,
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T09:15:11-03:00",
"weight": null,
"width": null,
"cost": null
}

PUT /products/{product_id}/variants/{id}

Modify an existing Product Variant

PUT /products/1234/variants/144

{
"id": 144,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234D",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T09:15:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.75",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
}

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
"id": 144,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 5,
"sku": "BSG1234D",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T12:15:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.75",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
}

PUT /products/{product_id}/variants

Updates the entire ProductVariant collection owned by a specific Product. Use this endpoint to add, modify or remove ProductVariants in one single batch operation.

If the operation is successful, all the variants sent in the request will be the current and only variants for the Product.

Each ProductVariant will be identified by its value combination. If a specified value combination doesn't exist, a new ProductVariant will be created, otherwise, the ProductVariant matching that value combination will be updated. Value combinations that aren't present in the request body, identify ProductVariants that will be deleted.

PUT /products/1234/variants

[
{
"values": [
{
"es": "Large"
}
],
"stock": 4,
"price": 10.5
},
{
"values": [
{
"es": "Medium"
}
]
}
]

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Indicates that the entire collection has been processed successfully. Returns the current ProductVariants collection of the Product.

[
{
"id": 33739371,
"image_id": null,
"product_id": 17310851,
"position": 27,
"price": "10.50",
"promotional_price": null,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 4,
"weight": "0.000",
"width": "0.00",
"height": "0.00",
"depth": "0.00",
"sku": null,
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"values": [
{
"es": "Large"
}
],
"barcode": null,
"cost": null,
"created_at": "2021-11-10T20:40:44+0000",
"updated_at": "2021-11-10T20:40:44+0000"
},
{
"id": 33739372,
"image_id": null,
"product_id": 17310851,
"position": 28,
"price": null,
"promotional_price": null,
"stock_management": false,
"stock": null,
"weight": "0.000",
"width": "0.00",
"height": "0.00",
"depth": "0.00",
"sku": null,
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"values": [
{
"es": "Medium"
}
],
"barcode": null,
"cost": null,
"created_at": "2021-11-10T20:40:44+0000",
"updated_at": "2021-11-10T20:40:44+0000"
}
]

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

{
"code": 400,
"message": "Bad Request",
"description": "Invalid input format"
}
{
"code": 400,
"message": "Bad Request",
"description": "Variant values should not be empty"
}
{
"code": 400,
"message": "Bad Request",
"description": "There must be at least one variant"
}
{
"code": 400,
"message": "Bad Request",
"description": "Invalid values format"
}

HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity

{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "Validation error",
"price": ["The price must be at least 0."],
"stock": ["The stock must be an integer."]
}
{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "Variant values should not be repeated"
}
{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "Product is not allowed to have more than 1000 variants."
}

HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity

{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "The selected age group is invalid"
}

HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity

{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "The selected gender is invalid"
}

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

{
"code": 500,
"message": "Internal Server Error",
"description": null
}

PATCH /products/{product_id}/variants

Partially update a ProductVariant collection. This endpoint allows to modify many existing ProductVariants that belong to the given Product.

This endpoint will not add new ProductVariants or remove existing ProductVariants; it will just update their values.

Preconditions

Request body is an array of ProductVariant resources.

Each ProductVariant in the request body must:

  • include the ProductVariant ID, set in the field id
  • correspond to an existing ProductVariant with same ID than the one set in the field id
  • belong to the Product which ID is set in {product_id} in the URL
  • have a unique combination of values among all ProductVariants of the Product (either ProductVariants included in the request or previously persisted).

If any of the above preconditions is not met, the response:

  • has HTTP status code 422
  • contains a JSON with error information including the IDs of the failed ProductVariants:
{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "Variants cannot be repeated",
"duplicate_variant_ids": [33745216, 33745217, 33745218]
}

HTTP status code

200: All ProductVariants in the request have been updated. Complete updated ProductVariant collection is returned. 404: Product with ID {product_id} was not found. 422: Changes are not processable because some of the above preconditions has not been met.

PATCH /products/1234/variants

[
{
"id": 143,
"values": [
{
"en": "Large"
}
],
"price": "19.00"
},
{
"id": 144,
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "21.00"
}
]

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[
{
"id": 143,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": null,
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Large"
}
],
"price": "19.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": false,
"stock": null,
"sku": null,
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T09:15:11-03:00",
"weight": null,
"width": null,
"cost": null
},
{
"id": 144,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": null,
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "21.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": false,
"stock": null,
"sku": null,
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T09:15:11-03:00",
"weight": null,
"width": null,
"cost": null
}
]

DELETE /products/{product_id}/variants/{id}

Remove a Product Variant

DELETE /products/1234/variants/112

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{}

POST /products/{product_id}/variants/stock

Update the stock for one or all variants of a product by adding, removing or replacing.

The request body must be an object containing:

FieldDescriptionRequired
actionDictates the type of update and must be one of the following values: "replace" to replace the current stock with a new one or "variation" to add or remove the given quantityYes
valueFor "variation", a positive quantity adds to the current stock and a negative one removes from it. For "replace", it indicates the new stock to set: a positive quantity, 0 (stockout) or null (infinite stock)Yes
idIf present, only the product variant with this ID will be updated. Otherwise, all variants for this product will be affected by the updateNo

On success, a collection of all Product Variants that were updated is returned.

Note that removing more stock than available will not result in an error but rather a stock of 0.

POST /products/1234/variants/stock

{
"action" : "replace",
"value" : 10,
}

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[
{
"id": 143,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "Large"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 10,
"sku": "BSG1234DL",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T09:15:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.75",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
},
{
"id": 144,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 10,
"sku": "BSG1234DX",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T09:15:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.75",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
}
]

POST /products/1234/variants/stock

{
"action" : "variation",
"value" : -2,
"id" : 144
}

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[
{
"id": 144,
"image_id": null,
"promotional_price": "19.00",
"created_at": "2013-01-03T09:11:51-03:00",
"depth": null,
"height": null,
"values": [
{
"en": "X-Large"
}
],
"price": "25.00",
"product_id": 1234,
"stock_management": true,
"stock": 8,
"sku": "BSG1234DX",
"mpn": null,
"age_group": null,
"gender": null,
"updated_at": "2013-06-01T09:15:11-03:00",
"weight": "2.75",
"width": null,
"cost": "10.99"
}
]

On failure, a response with error information is returned.

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

{
"code": 404,
"message": "Not Found",
"description": "Product with such id does not exist"
}

HTTP/1.1 422 Unprocessable Entity

{
"code": 422,
"message": "Unprocessable Entity",
"description": "Valid actions are 'replace', 'variation'."
}

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

{
"code": 500,
"message": "Internal Server Error",
"description": null
}

Extra shipping days by Product Variant

For products that have extra days that must be considered in the shipment (manufacturing, preparation), you can use our Metafields API. When creating the metafield with the number of additional days, the key must be sent as additional_days, otherwise the days will not be considered. Payload example:

POST /metafields

    {
"key":"additional_days",
"value":"5",
"namespace":"shipping_rules",
"owner_id":2856879,
"owner_resource":"Product_Variant",

}

In this payload, the only things that should vary are:

  • Value: It is the total number of additional days that the product will have.
  • Owner_id: Product variant identifier.

FAQ

How to set up unlimited/infinite stock?

In order to set unlimited stock for a product or variant, you have to modify the variant's stock to "". Example:

{
"stock": ""
}

Note: The stock_management property is automatically set by Tiendanube, and can't be modified via API. This property can have the following values:

  • false: the variant's stock is infinite.
  • true: the variant's stock is equal or higher than 0.
Why is the stock_management property not being modified?

This property is automatically set by Tiendanube, and can't be modified via API. It can have the following values:

  • false: when the variant's stock is infinite.
  • true: when the variant's stock is equal or higher than 0.

In order to set unlimited stock for a product or variant, you have to modify the variant's stock to "". Example:

{
"stock": ""
}