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Variants now support multiple barcodes
doc:019fb619-9b4a-74ac-a83e-3ffa98844fb4::feed/https://shopify.dev/changelog/product-variant-barcode-is-being-replaced-by-barcodes- Product
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"excerpt": "Merchants often sell the same variant under more than one identifier: a manufacturer UPC alongside a private-label EAN, a GTIN, a reissued ISBN, or an ASIN for a marketplace listing. Until now a variant held a single barcode value, so the extras ended up in metafields, tags, or outside Shopify entirely. What's new You can now read a variant's full set from the new barcodes connection on ProductVariant, and write it with the barcodes input on the productSet mutation, productVariantsBulkCreate mut…",
"identity": "https://shopify.dev/changelog/product-variant-barcode-is-being-replaced-by-barcodes",
"link": "https://shopify.dev/changelog/product-variant-barcode-is-being-replaced-by-barcodes",
"published_at": "2026-09-08T17:35:00Z",
"title": "Variants now support multiple barcodes"
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The changelog entry indicates a product variant feature update: Variants now support multiple barcodes via a new barcodes connection on ProductVariant and a barcodes input on productSet/productVariantsBulkCreate mutations. This is an informational/documentation-style change describing new capability rather than a deprecation or API removal.
Variants now support multiple barcodes Merchants often sell the same variant under more than one identifier: a manufacturer UPC alongside a private-label EAN, a GTIN, a reissued ISBN, or an ASIN for a marketplace listing. Until now a variant held a single barcode value, so the extras ended up in metafields, tags, or outside Shopify entirely. What's new You can now read a variant's full set from the new barcodes connection on ProductVariant, and write it with the barcodes input on the productSet mutation, productVariantsBulkCreate mut…
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