product selection

Select individual variants

Learn how to select individual variants with a safe Juniper & Trail example, shopper impact, options, and recovery checks. A manual variant selection changes only the chosen sizes, colors, or other variants. Product cards may still show an undiscounted starting price when the cheapest variant is not selected.

Before you begin

Organize Shopify titles, tags, vendors, types, collections, and inventory
Identify products or variants that must never change
Know whether future catalog items should join automatically

Keep the campaign in Draft while you verify the configuration. Use a private storefront window where the guide changes shopper-facing behavior.

Step-by-step setup

Select individual variants shown in the Badgy admin, with numbered callouts for the controls and verification points described below. — Annotated Juniper & Trail example

Choose all products, rules, collections, or a hand-picked selection.
Define the matching condition used to keep the selection current.
Confirm the number of matching products before continuing.
Inspect matching products, variants, and original prices in the preview.

Choose the broad product scope first.
Expand Variant targeting (optional).
Choose Hand-pick variants and open Browse variants; browsing is constrained by the current product scope.
Select sizes, colors, or variants and remove mistakes.
Refresh Preview and test a selected and unselected variant on the same product.

A manual variant selection changes only the chosen sizes, colors, or other variants. Product cards may still show an undiscounted starting price when the cheapest variant is not selected.

Juniper & Trail example

Juniper & Trail uses select individual variants to include trail-ready products while protecting the Old Growth Logo Tee and sold-out variants with explicit exclusions. The documentation fixture uses realistic products, inventory states, variants, collections, and protected exclusions so the preview exercises the same decisions as a merchant catalog.

What shoppers will see

Only resolved variants receive campaign behavior; mixed products can show different variant prices or eligibility on the same product page. Check the relevant result from product through cart where applicable. For shopper-facing work, compare desktop and mobile and verify both an eligible and an ineligible item.

Common mistakes and troubleshooting

Acting on the wrong shop. Confirm the Shopify store and campaign before following Select individual variants.
Trusting a stale preview. Refresh after catalog, schedule, discount, theme, locale, or market changes.
Repeating a background command. Read status and History first; retry only when Badgy presents a recoverable failure.
Skipping the consequence check. Confirm what changes for shoppers and what the end or restore path will do.

If the status reports revoked authorization, reconnect Shopify before retrying. If the result still differs from the preview, preserve the campaign ID and approximate time, then open support from this identified shop. Never send customer data, access tokens, or full catalog exports in feedback.

Options reference

| Option | Use it when | Consequence | | --- | --- | --- | | All variants | No refinement | Every variant in scope | | Hand-pick | Exact variant IDs | Must remain inside product scope | | Match conditions | Variant-field rules | Dynamic refinement |

Badgy behavior in this guide is reviewed against the repository's shipped UI, service rules, and feature design documents. Shopify-owned theme, Markets, Flow, billing, and discount behavior can also depend on the store's Shopify configuration; consult the Shopify Help Center for that platform configuration.