Shopify - Common Errors

• Daily variant creation limit reached
• Metafield type
• Location is deactivated

Daily variant creation limit reached

Error: "Daily variant creation limit reached. Please try again later. See https:\help.shopify.com\api\getting-started\api-call-limit for more information about rate limits and how to avoid them."

Reason: The error is caused by Shopify's limit on daily variation updates. Shopify allows posting up to 50,000 variations a day. More explanations are available in this Shopify community post.

Solution:  

As it's a Shopify side limitation, the solution is not technical but administrative:

• Wait for the end of the day, for Shopify to release the limit
• When executing the "Run integration" operation with the Shopify module in Valigara: For updates that do not relate to variations, consider running the operation in the "Specific fields" mode, and not "All fields" mode (which re-creates all variations). This will reduce the count of variation updates, and allow updating more products in one day
• Reach out to Shopify customer support about increasing the limit.

Metafield type

Error: {"errors":{"type":["'single_line_text_field' must be consistent with the definition's type: 'multi_line_text_field'."]}}

Reason: Metafield definition/ values were not consistent and didnt match in both Valigara and Shopify

Solution: Metafield definition/ values should be consistent/ the same in both Valigara and Shopify

To correct this, you can change the metafield value, for example, from "String" to "Text value".

Location is deactivated

Error: Qty. cannot be set for "PRODUCTNAME" location "LOCATIONID", reason: Location is deactivated

Reason: One of the Shopify inventory locations is deactivated. 

Solution: 

Reactivate the Shopify location, using the Shopify backoffice, or delete it the location is irrelevant. Here is the Shopify helpdesk on how to handle locations. 

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