thread Re: Increase the number of variations on an item in Payments Troubleshooting

What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

claudrolet — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:35:45 GMT

What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

Re: Maximum variations per item

ashc — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 23:19:57 GMT

Hi @claudrolet! Welcome to the Community!

How many variations were you trying to put with each item?

Re: Maximum variations per item

claudrolet — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:12:57 GMT

Hi,

I need to get the answer so it’ll confirm how I will set up my dashboard.

Thanks.

Re: Maximum variations per item

ashc — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:20:53 GMT

@claudrolet I reached out to someone on our Product team and it looks like the maximum number of variations per item is 250!

Re: Maximum variations per item

claudrolet — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:39:14 GMT

Thanks very much for your prompt reply.

Re: Maximum variations per item

ashc — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:41:45 GMT

@claudrolet Any time! 👍

Increase the number of variations on an item

Healhaven — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:43:11 GMT

Question - could the number of variations per item be increased above 250?

Re: Increase the number of variations on an item

isabelle — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:25:04 GMT

Hey @Healhaven-

Thanks for posting in the Seller Community.

You are correct, as of right now the maximum number of variations is 250. I will pass your feature request along to the appropriate team to see if we have any plans to increase that number/limit.

Thanks again! 🌟

Re: Increase the number of variations on an item

MattHebb1995 — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:18:38 GMT

I am very curious what you are doing that needs so many variations and my question is would this not lead to a massive drop down menu for the customer to navigate? I am sure you have a reason I am just curious haha

Re: Increase the number of variations on an item

Drschnei — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:28:31 GMT

We would also like this option. We have 32 flavors of ice cream and cannot allow someone to pick two different flavors for a cone. Having 2 options each with all the flavors exceeds the 250 maximum.

This is such a basic thing and because of this Square won’t won’t for us.

Is there a way to get more then 250 variants?

Saffron — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:26:23 GMT

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: Is there a way to get more then 250 variants?

I need to use more then 250 variants. Modifiers wouldn't work as i would like to add pictures to it. Can i have more the 250 in a premium setting?

Re: Is there a way to get more then 250 variants?

Valentina — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:25:06 GMT

This is considered a feature request, @Saffron. I've moved your post over to this thread where others have asked for this same thing, so that you will be notified if we post an update into this thread. To be able to provide a bit more clarity - and possibly some advice - what kind of variations are you adding to a single item that you need over 250?

Re: Is there a way to get more then 250 variants?

JanomeCentral — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:33:46 GMT

Hi Valentina,

We are currently having issues syncing our custom cart to Squareup because we have also reached a maximum limit of 250 variations, we need this updated to it'll render the system useless.

We have threads that come in 450 different colours, all of which have their own image and SKU.

Who can I speak to regarding this to get it resolved asap?

Thanks

Re: Is there a way to get more then 250 variants?

Valentina — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:27:09 GMT

Hi @JanomeCentral - and thanks for posting here in the Seller Community! ✨

The maximum number of item variations is still 250. Have you considered breaking up your 450 threads into smaller groups?

For example:

Different thread types
Separate by color - blues, reds, yellows, other colors
Brand

Could a setup like one of those possibly work for your business?

Re: Is there a way to get more then 250 variants?

JanomeCentral — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 03:52:51 GMT

Hi Valentina,

Thanks for your response and apologies for the late reply.

I'll ask our client about this as at the moment it was working great on the cart by selecting a variant without the need to create separate products.

To be honest, this is very basic on any cart and should already be integrated for those using Squareup.

Can you tell me how long the featured request has been sitting waiting to be actioned and if there is going to be an increase shortly?

I'm sure 500 max would be suffice for most stores, saying that I do think 450 was a lot myself but it's an issue that exists either way.

Thanks

Re: What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

tadhite — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:13:48 GMT

I run into this problem A LOT. We sell uniforms and clothing. On one pair of police pants they come in 12 colors, 14 waist sizes and 4 different inseams. I don't want to break it out into multiple products by color because the SKUs are linked to our Woocommerce site and I don't want all the extra products, it gets too confusing for the buyers.

Re: What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

Disco123 — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:18:56 GMT

We are also running into this problem, We have a product that is for fabric remnants and has many everchanging variations. We need more variations available.

Re: What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

Kassi_ — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:46:39 GMT

Thank you for coming to the Community, @Disco123.

I appreciate your time for asking about this Feature Request for more variations for your items.

This will get escalated to our Product Team, so they can look into this for the future.

Re: Increase the number of variations on an item

frameofmind — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:01:04 GMT

I have this issue, i own an art supply store, and some of our products have up to 500 different color options! it is sooo frustrating!! we have to make everything it's own item because we can't really split the colors to make sense 😞

Re: What’s the maximum variations allowed per item?

Disco123 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:55:30 GMT

We have a fabric store and need the ability to have hundreds of variations of color for products. I do not want to break up products into smaller groups, I want Square to allow us the ability to have as many variations of color for each product as we want. Why are there limits???

As well, Square limits the number of colors that we can enter as options, so we can not even enter all the color options of our color library into the color options set. This is preventing us from using Square POS. When will this be addressed?