> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://spreecommerce.org/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a variant > Creates a new variant for a product. Supports nested prices and stock items. Option types and values are auto-created if they don't exist. Prices are upserted by currency. Stock items are upserted by stock location. **Required scope:** `write_products` (for API-key authentication). ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/admin.yaml post /api/v3/admin/products/{product_id}/variants openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Admin API contact: name: Spree Commerce url: https://spreecommerce.org email: hello@spreecommerce.org description: > Spree Admin API v3 - Administrative API for managing products, orders, and store settings. ## Authentication The Admin API requires a secret API key passed in the `x-spree-api-key` header. Secret API keys can be generated in the Spree admin dashboard. ## Response Format All responses are JSON. List endpoints return paginated responses with `data` and `meta` keys. Single resource endpoints return a flat JSON object. ## Resource IDs Every resource is identified by an opaque string ID (e.g. `prod_86Rf07xd4z`, `variant_k5nR8xLq`, `or_UkLWZg9DAJ`). Use these IDs everywhere — URL paths, request bodies, and Ransack filters all accept them directly. ## Error Handling Errors return a consistent format: ```json { "error": { "code": "validation_error", "message": "Validation failed", "details": { "name": ["can't be blank"] } } } ``` version: v3 servers: - url: http://{defaultHost} variables: defaultHost: default: localhost:3000 security: [] tags: - name: Authentication description: Admin user login, logout, token refresh, and current user profile - name: Allowed Origins description: CORS allowlist for storefront and admin client origins - name: API Keys description: Secret and publishable API keys - name: Channels description: Sales channels and product publication across channels - name: Custom Fields description: >- Custom field definitions for products, variants, customers, and other resources - name: Customer Groups description: >- Customer groups for segmenting customers (e.g. wholesale, VIP) used by pricing and promotions - name: Customers description: Customer profiles, addresses, credit cards, and store credits - name: Exports description: Async CSV exports of admin resources - name: Fulfillments description: Order fulfillments — shipments, fulfill, cancel, resume, split - name: Gift Cards description: Gift cards and gift card batches - name: Markets description: >- Markets — geographic groupings of countries used for pricing, tax, and fulfillment rules - name: Option Types description: >- Option types and option values used to build product variants (e.g. Size, Color) - name: Orders description: Orders, order items, applied gift cards, and applied store credits - name: Payment Methods description: Configured payment providers and their available types - name: Payments description: Order payments — list, capture, void - name: Pricing description: >- Prices and price lists for currency-, market-, and customer-group-specific pricing - name: Products description: >- Products, taxons/categories, product custom field values, and bulk product operations - name: Promotions description: Promotions, promotion rules, promotion actions, and coupon codes - name: Refunds description: Order refunds - name: Settings description: Store-level settings — store profile, tags, store credit categories - name: Staff description: Admin users, roles, and invitations to the store - name: Stock Locations description: Warehouses and physical fulfillment locations - name: Variants description: >- Product variants — the individual SKUs (size/color combinations) sold under a product - name: Webhooks description: Webhook endpoints and webhook delivery history paths: /api/v3/admin/products/{product_id}/variants: post: tags: - Variants summary: Create a variant description: >- Creates a new variant for a product. Supports nested prices and stock items. Option types and values are auto-created if they don't exist. Prices are upserted by currency. Stock items are upserted by stock location. **Required scope:** `write_products` (for API-key authentication). parameters: - name: x-spree-api-key in: header required: true schema: type: string - name: Authorization in: header required: true description: Bearer token for admin authentication schema: type: string - name: product_id in: path required: true description: Product ID schema: type: string requestBody: content: application/json: schema: type: object required: - options properties: sku: type: string example: SKU-001 cost_price: type: string example: '10.00' cost_currency: type: string example: USD weight: type: number height: type: number width: type: number depth: type: number weight_unit: type: string dimensions_unit: type: string track_inventory: type: boolean tax_category_id: type: string options: type: array description: >- Required. A variant created here is always non-master, so it must declare at least one option pair (e.g. size + color) or creation fails with 422. One pair per option type the variant participates in. Option types and values are auto-created if missing. items: type: object required: - name - value properties: name: type: string example: size value: type: string example: Small position: type: integer barcode: type: string prices: type: array description: Per-currency prices. Upserted by currency. items: type: object required: - currency - amount properties: currency: type: string example: USD amount: type: string example: '29.99' compare_at_amount: type: string nullable: true example: '39.99' stock_items: type: array description: Per-stock-location inventory. Upserted by stock_location_id. items: type: object required: - stock_location_id - count_on_hand properties: stock_location_id: type: string description: Stock location ID (e.g. sloc_xxx) count_on_hand: type: integer example: 50 backorderable: type: boolean responses: '201': description: variant created content: application/json: example: id: variant_EfhxLZ9ck8 product_id: prod_UkLWZg9DAJ sku: NEW-SKU-001 options_text: 'Size: XL' track_inventory: true media_count: 0 preorder_ships_at: null thumbnail_url: null purchasable: false in_stock: false backorderable: false preorder: false weight: 0 height: null width: null depth: null price: id: price_EfhxLZ9ck8 amount: '24.99' amount_in_cents: 2499 compare_at_amount: null compare_at_amount_in_cents: null currency: USD display_amount: $24.99 display_compare_at_amount: null price_list_id: null original_price: null option_values: - id: optval_gbHJdmfrXB option_type_id: opt_gbHJdmfrXB name: xl label: XL position: 1 color_code: null option_type_name: size option_type_label: Size image_url: null metadata: {} created_at: '2026-07-11T15:38:41.827Z' updated_at: '2026-07-11T15:38:41.827Z' metadata: {} position: 3 cost_price: null cost_currency: USD barcode: null weight_unit: lb dimensions_unit: null backorder_limit: null deleted_at: null created_at: '2026-07-11T15:38:41.831Z' updated_at: '2026-07-11T15:38:41.832Z' preorderable: false tax_category_id: taxcat_UkLWZg9DAJ available_stock: 0 reserved_quantity: 0 total_on_hand: 0 product_name: Product 85741 '422': description: validation error content: application/json: example: error: code: validation_error message: Option value variants can't be blank details: option_value_variants: - can't be blank schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' security: - api_key: [] bearer_auth: [] x-codeSamples: - lang: javascript label: Spree Admin SDK source: >- import { createAdminClient } from '@spree/admin-sdk' const client = createAdminClient({ baseUrl: 'https://your-store.com', secretKey: 'sk_xxx', }) const variant = await client.products.variants.create('prod_86Rf07xd4z', { sku: 'TSHIRT-L-NAVY', options: [ { name: 'size', value: 'Large' }, { name: 'color', value: 'navy' }, ], prices: [ { currency: 'USD', amount: '29.99', compare_at_amount: '34.99' }, { currency: 'EUR', amount: '27.99' }, ], stock_items: [{ stock_location_id: 'sloc_UkLWZg9DAJ', count_on_hand: 25 }], }) - lang: bash label: Spree CLI source: >- spree api post /products/{product_id}/variants -d '{"sku":"TSHIRT-L-NAVY","options":[{"name":"size","value":"Large"},{"name":"color","value":"navy"}],"prices":[{"currency":"USD","amount":"29.99","compare_at_amount":"34.99"},{"currency":"EUR","amount":"27.99"}],"stock_items":[{"stock_location_id":"sloc_UkLWZg9DAJ","count_on_hand":25}]}' components: schemas: ErrorResponse: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string example: record_not_found message: type: string example: Record not found details: type: object description: Field-specific validation errors nullable: true example: name: - is too short - is required email: - is invalid required: - code - message required: - error example: error: code: validation_error message: Validation failed details: name: - is too short email: - is invalid securitySchemes: api_key: type: apiKey name: x-spree-api-key in: header description: Secret API key for admin access bearer_auth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT description: JWT token for admin user authentication ````