Merchants are often told Shopify’s 100-variant limit per product is a hard wall, and that the only way around it is an options app that hacks line items together and breaks with every theme update.
It isn’t. We build clean solutions for high-variant products: depending on the catalog, that means restructuring how products and variants are modeled, building custom selection interfaces, or both — so the customer sees one fast product page and your inventory stays accurate behind it.
We’ve shipped this pattern for real stores with real catalogs. If your products have outgrown the variant limit, this is a solved problem, not a compromise.