---
title: Publish variants to specific sales channels
date: 2026-05-15
description: Import and export per-variant sales channel publishing so individual sizes, colors, or formats can be shown or hidden on each channel.
tags: ["Products","Imports","Exports"]
categories: ["Changelog"]
url: https://www.getaltera.com/changelog/2026-05-15-variant-sales-channel-publishing/
---


You can now control sales channel visibility for each variant, separately from the parent product. Hide a single size from the Shop app, or show only one format on the Buy Button, without touching the rest of the product.

### What's New

- **Variant Published columns** - add `Variant Published: Online Store`, `Variant Published: Shop`, `Variant Published: Buy Button` (and other channels) to your import sheet to publish or unpublish specific variants per channel.
- **Variant publishing in exports** - select the new "Variant Published on Sales Channel" field group when exporting products to see each variant's per-channel state alongside the existing product-level columns.

### Improvements

- **Independent from product state** - variant publishing is additive: blank columns leave the existing state untouched, so you can update one channel at a time without affecting others.
- **Matrixify-compatible naming** - column headers follow the same `Variant Published: <channel>` convention as the existing `Published: <channel>` columns.

### Heads-up

- Shopify does not support variant publishing on the **Point of Sale** channel. POS visibility for a variant follows its parent product, so `Variant Published: Point of Sale = FALSE` is skipped with a warning (`PRD062`).