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.
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| Platform | Shopify |
|---|---|
| Effective date | No date published |
| Precision | n/a |
| Published | 2026-09-08 |
| Categories | Breaking / action requiredDeprecation |
| Tags | 2026-10, API, Action Required, Admin GraphQL API, Deprecation announcement |
| Official source | Shopify developer changelog ↗ |
| Fetched | 2026-10-17T03:44:00+00:00 |
| First seen | 2026-10-17T01:05:46+00:00 |
| Status | Listed by the source |
| Stable ID | shopify-d7b3e42f17 · JSON |