Integration
Product Variants + Recharge.
How they compose, where each earns its place.
Two Shopify apps doing different jobs cleanly. Product Variants show separate shopify products as colour variants — combined listings on any plan. Recharge the dominant shopify subscriptions platform — recurring billing, subscriber portals, and subscription-driven cart ux. Here's how they compose without conflicting, and where the integration genuinely earns the install.
Product Variants
by BrandUp Factory
Show separate Shopify products as colour variants — combined listings on any plan.
Recharge
Subscriptions · by Recharge
The dominant Shopify subscriptions platform — recurring billing, subscriber portals, and subscription-driven cart UX.
Most mature Shopify subscription engine, with deep integrations into checkout, customer portal, and SMS/email tooling. Backbone of subscription-heavy verticals like wellness, food, and pet.
The integration angle
How Product Variants + Recharge compose.
Recharge sits on top of Shopify's native variant model and reads subscription-discounted variant prices from it. Product Variants is the admin-side bulk editor for those underlying variant prices. The clean split: Product Variants edits the variant prices that Recharge then bills against; Recharge handles the recurring-billing mechanics. For subscription-heavy stores running monthly pricing reviews or seasonal promo cycles, Product Variants' preview-and-commit safety net is critical — a typo in subscription pricing affects every subscriber on next billing.
Concrete use cases
What this looks like in production.
Specific patterns where Product Variants + Recharge compose into something neither tool could deliver on its own.
Bulk-adjust subscription discounts across the catalogue
Filter all "subscription-discounted" variants, apply a percentage adjustment (e.g. +3% margin recovery), preview every change in a diff view, commit atomically.
Template-replicate subscription pricing across new product launches
New product inherits your standard "10% off subscription" pricing rule via Product Variants template — Recharge picks up the discounted variant automatically.
Multi-location subscription inventory sync
Recharge ships from whichever warehouse has stock; Product Variants edits inventory across configured locations in one operation, keeping subscription fulfilment safe.
Setup checklist
Get it running.
- 1
Install Recharge + Product Variants.
- 2
In Recharge, configure subscription products with their discounted variant SKUs.
- 3
In Product Variants, build a template that includes the standard subscription discount rule.
- 4
Test: edit a subscription-discounted variant in Product Variants; confirm Recharge picks up the new price on next billing cycle.
FAQ
About Product Variants.
Compose Product Variants with your stack.
Free to install. Works alongside Recharge — no conflicts, clean division of responsibility.