Looking for a Variant Options app with specific criteria

emFBO
Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:58:14 +0000
Shopify Apps

We’re currently using a variant option app for our wholesale orders. How it works is we have a wholesale product in shopify for our customers to buy 100 bottles.
The variant options app allows for a couple of custom fields where they can tell us what they want on their labels. Next, there are 20 dropdown pickers where they can select the type of bottle they want, with each dropdown representing 5 bottles. They can select the same type in multiple dropdowns if, for example they want 10 or 15 of one type. And then there are two additional drop downs where they can select back up choices if anything they have selected in 1-20 is not available. (see a partial screenshot below)

At this basic level it works well, however there are a few issues.

1. We have migrated to a new website theme. The variant app doesn’t let us define which product page templates it applies to and for our non wholesale products it’s not a nice UI in comparison with the native theme UI. So I want an app that will also enable me to say, this applies to a specific product page template.

2. I have been able to edit the theme code to clean up the UI a little (not perfectly but a little). However, each time the website theme is updated, I will likely have to redo this custom code. Not ideal.

3. The variant picker can’t pull our products from Shopify - we have to separately maintain a list of products for the variant app to use in our wholesale orders. This is a complete waste of time, additional maintenance and prone to errors. It would be ideal if we could, for example, say to the wholesale orders, the dropdown options should be everything in a collection (or even multiple collections) so we eliminate this duplication of effort.

4. We can’t report on the underlying detail of what our customers are ordering in these wholesale orders. We’ve tried all sorts of different ways, including customer support and sidekick, to get the data out and it’s just not there. So we’re left taking screenshots and manually adding these to our monthly sales reports and/or having some AI translate the screenshots into spreadsheets and then merging. It just feels like unnecessary additional steps- I should be able to pull reports

Does anyone have experience using a variant options app that might resolve these issues?
Thanks in advance!

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