Split products

Turn one product with many variants into separate products — and, optionally, a ready-made combined listing — in one step.

Split products takes one product that has variants — like a hoodie in five colours and four sizes — and turns each variant into its own Shopify product. Optionally, it then re-groups those new products into a single combined listing, so shoppers still see one product with swatches to choose from.

It's the fastest way to go from a single multi-variant product to the "separate products, one listing" setup that Combined Listings is built around.

Find it in the app's left navigation under Split products.

Why split a product?

Splitting is useful when each variant deserves to stand on its own — while still being shown together:

• Its own page and URL — better for SEO and for sharing a direct link to one colour.

• Its own images in search and collections — a collection page shows the red jacket as red, not whichever variant happens to be first.

• Its own inventory and pricing — track and price each colour separately.

• A combined listing, automatically — the app can create the group for you, so the storefront still shows one product with option swatches.

Your original products are never deleted. Splitting only creates new products. The original is left untouched — or archived, if you choose that option — so you can always undo.

Before you start

• Splitting is available for products with 2 or more variants that aren't already in a group.

• Splitting runs in the background. You can close the page or keep working while it finishes.

• Each new product inherits the original's images, price, inventory, availability, and more — see what each new product keeps.

Step 1 — Start a new split

Open Split products from the app navigation and click New split. Pick the products you want to split.

The picker only offers products that can be split. Search, then select one or many.

The picker filters to eligible products for you:

Filter	Meaning
Has 2+ variants	Single-variant products have nothing to split.
Not in a group	A product already in a combined listing is tagged and can't be picked.

Products that were already split, are archived, or have a single variant are labelled so you know why they're unavailable.

Step 2 — Review and choose your options

Your selected products appear in a list, each showing how many new products it will create (→ 20 products). On the right, set how the split should behave.

Set titles, status, grouping, and archiving before you split. The summary shows exactly how many products and groups you'll create.

Setting	What it does
Product titles	How each new product is named. Title — Value, Title (Value), Title Value, or a custom separator. A live preview shows the result, e.g. Alpine Hoodie — Navy.
New product status	Active (live immediately), Draft (hidden until you publish), or Same as original.
Create a group for each split product	Automatically build a combined-listing group from the product's options (like Color and Size) so the new products show as one listing.
Archive originals after splitting	Archive each original once its split finishes successfully. Archived products are hidden from your storefront but kept in your admin.

Leave Create a group on if your goal is a combined listing. Turn it off if you only want the separate products and will group them yourself later.

Step 3 — Split

Click Split N products and confirm. Splitting starts immediately and runs in the background.

A final summary before anything is created — including what happens to your originals.

Step 4 — Watch it finish

You land back on the Split products list, where a banner tracks progress and every product shows a live status.

Splitting runs in the background — leave the page and come back any time.

Status	Meaning
Queued	Waiting to start.
Splitting…	Being split right now.
Split	Finished. Its new products (and group) are ready.
Reverting…	The split is being undone right now.
Reverted	The split was undone — the products it created and the group are gone, and the original is back. See Manage and undo splits.
Failed	Something went wrong — use Retry on the row to run it again.

When a product finishes, use View group on its row to open the combined listing the split created.

Each finished product links straight to the group it created.

What each new product keeps

Every new product is a faithful copy of its variant:

• Title — the original title plus the variant value, in the format you chose.

• Images, price, and SKU — carried over from the variant.

• Inventory — the variant's stock and tracking settings are copied (your original is never changed).

• Availability — published to the same sales channels as the original.

• Product details — the meta description and product category come along too.

Collections and metafields aren't copied — add those afterwards if you need them.

Next steps

• Manage and undo splits — track batches, retry failures, and revert a split completely.

• Customize a style — pick how the swatches on your new combined listing look.

• How groups work — everything the split created is an ordinary group you can edit.