MetafieldReference

The Collection object represents a group of products that merchants can organize to make their stores easier to browse and help customers find related products. Collections serve as the primary way to categorize and display products across online stores, sales channels, and marketing campaigns.

There are two types of collections:

• Custom (manual) collections: You specify the products to include in a collection.
• Smart (automated) collections: You define rules, and products matching those rules are automatically included in the collection.

The Collection object provides information to:

• Organize products by category, season, or promotion.
• Automate product grouping using rules (for example, by tag, type, or price).
• Configure product sorting and display order (for example, alphabetical, best-selling, price, or manual).
• Manage collection visibility and publication across sales channels.
• Add rich descriptions, images, and metadata to enhance discovery.

Collections can be displayed in a store with Shopify's theme system through Liquid templates and can be customized with template suffixes for unique layouts. They also support advanced features like translated content, resource feedback, and contextual publication for location-based catalogs.

Learn about using metafields with smart collections.

Represents information about a company which is also a customer of the shop.

Represents information about a customer of the shop, such as the customer's contact details, their order history, and whether they've agreed to receive marketing material by email.

Caution: Only use this data if it's required for your app's functionality. Shopify will restrict access to scopes for apps that don't have a legitimate use for the associated data.

Represents any file other than HTML.

The MediaImage object represents an image hosted on Shopify's content delivery network (CDN). Shopify CDN is a content system that serves as the primary way to store, manage, and deliver visual content for products, variants, and other resources across the Shopify platform.

The MediaImage object provides information to:

• Store and display product and variant images across online stores, admin interfaces, and mobile apps.
• Retrieve visual branding elements, including logos, banners, favicons, and background images in checkout flows.
• Retrieve signed URLs for secure, time-limited access to original image files.

Each MediaImage object provides both the processed image data (with automatic optimization and CDN delivery) and access to the original source file. The image processing is handled asynchronously, so images might not be immediately available after upload. The status field indicates when processing is complete and the image is ready for use.

The MediaImage object implements the Media interface alongside other media types, like videos and 3D models.

Learn about managing media for products, product variants, and asynchronous media management.

Provides an object instance represented by a MetaobjectDefinition.

Represents a Shopify hosted 3D model.

The Order object represents a customer's request to purchase one or more products from a store. Use the Order object to handle the complete purchase lifecycle from checkout to fulfillment.

Use the Order object when you need to:

• Display order details on customer account pages or admin dashboards.
• Create orders for phone sales, wholesale customers, or subscription services.
• Update order information like shipping addresses, notes, or fulfillment status.
• Process returns, exchanges, and partial refunds.
• Generate invoices, receipts, and shipping labels.

The Order object serves as the central hub connecting customer information, product details, payment processing, and fulfillment data within the GraphQL Admin API schema.

Learn more about building apps for orders and fulfillment.

A page on the Online Store.

The Product object lets you manage products in a merchant’s store.

Products are the goods and services that merchants offer to customers. They can include various details such as title, description, price, images, and options such as size or color. You can use product variants to create or update different versions of the same product. You can also add or update product media. Products can be organized by grouping them into a collection.

Learn more about working with Shopify's product model, including limitations and considerations.

The ProductVariant object represents a version of a product that comes in more than one option, such as size or color. For example, if a merchant sells t-shirts with options for size and color, then a small, blue t-shirt would be one product variant and a large, blue t-shirt would be another.

Use the ProductVariant object to manage the full lifecycle and configuration of a product's variants. Common use cases for using the ProductVariant object include:

• Tracking inventory for each variant
• Setting unique prices for each variant
• Assigning barcodes and SKUs to connect variants to fulfillment services
• Attaching variant-specific images and media
• Setting delivery and tax requirements
• Supporting product bundles, subscriptions, and selling plans

A ProductVariant is associated with a parent Product object. ProductVariant serves as the central link between a product's merchandising configuration, inventory, pricing, fulfillment, and sales channels within the GraphQL Admin API schema. Each variant can reference other GraphQL types such as:

• InventoryItem: Used for inventory tracking
• Image: Used for variant-specific images
• SellingPlanGroup: Used for subscriptions and selling plans

Learn more about Shopify's product model.

Represents a Shopify product taxonomy value.

Represents a Shopify hosted video.

Returns a reference object if the metafield definition's type is a resource reference.

A list of reference objects if the metafield's type is a resource reference list.

A list of nodes that are contained in MetafieldReferenceEdge. You can fetch data about an individual node, or you can follow the edges to fetch data about a collection of related nodes. At each node, you specify the fields that you want to retrieve.

The item at the end of MetafieldReferenceEdge.

For resource reference fields, provides the referenced object.

For resource reference list fields, provides the list of referenced objects.