StarApps Variant Image

Oct. 13, 2017

Variant mapper is a staple for your store because it will improve your experience. Shashank was awesome and helped me cover some mapping issues for my store listings. He deserves 6 stars. Also, the great benefit of this app over others with similar function is the mapping works at product listing level, not centralized level. That helps when people are creating new listings and don’t need to refer to other central locations, making it cumbersome. Also, the developer is open to improvements and mentioned new ones underway. This is one of those apps that make the experience seamless and smooth customer experience, but don’t often get the credit, because they are in fact doing their job very well.

Sept. 7, 2017

This is one of those features that should be a baked-in option in every Shopify theme. This app bridges that gap nicely. I tried several other apps that also do the same thing (variant image grouping), but they seemed to have conflicts with our theme. Sometimes you don't feel like reaching out to support and waiting, so I just kept trying apps until one just worked. This was the one. All those other apps use bulky admin UIs to manually "assign" images to their variants. This app is automatic and uses a pretty obvious bit of logic that most people are probably doing already: as long as you have your variant images ordered and grouped with each other, and an image assigned to each variant, the app does the rest. I had one issue where the app wasn't working right when your first variant is out of stock. I reached out to Shashank and he responded quickly, and then fixed the issue within a day or two. Also, sometimes when you update your product's images order, and assign variant images, it takes a minute or two for the front-end product page to reflect the changes. I assume that has something to do with caching or whatever. So if you experience that, don't worry. Just refresh the page in a bit. In summary, it's a great app!