Discussing optimal schema for product variants in Sanity with Stripe/PayPal

Battling with the notion of product “variants”! Is there any reason it would be unhelpful to craft your schema as:

Essentially – omit the “Default” variant fields you see in Shopify-type schema, and simply store ALL variants in an array? If there’s no variants, there would only be one item in “Variants” and no “Variant Label”

Its frustrating when you have a store where variations will be relevant for less than 2% of products…

i typically ignore variants entirely if there is only 1

especially in my mounting and displaying of product information

Interesting! Thanks User. But then how does it work if you have a range of sizes, S, M, L, XL etc. – is the default variant titled “S” and added to the list of options?

are you using shopify? or implementing your own instance of shopify-like?

I’m literally just building with Sanity and Stripe/PayPal integrations, been great so far – some basic stuff for emails, orders etc. – but never needed variants before! It’s a little perplexing for me

So yes I have total freedom, which is probably the root of my confusion – I’m used to being prescribed a logic and having to accept it

ah

if you’re handling it, I would just not associate variants with products that don’t have them if you don’t need to

you don’t have to follow the shopify pattern of default variant if you don’t want to

especially if you have full control of sku/inventory

you really have full freedom to optimize specific for your use case

just make sure it can scale with some level of complexity (like size + color)

doesn’t have to be a single tier of

all variatns

like shopify either

add a size array for sizes, color array for colors

Yeah that’s a thing – it’s a charity who will largely just sell artworks, posters etc. – but then I know they will throw a spanner in the works and want to sell a t-shirt in a range of sizes or something, at some point, but not idea what these will be until they decide to do them.

ahhh that could be a great idea! (sizes array)

thanks User

food for thought…