Question about the valid values for some attributes of product variants.
Specifically there is confusion around the variant inventory_management property and the fulfillment_service property.
For starters here is some JSON of a variant which was output by the store admin:
compare_at_price: "39.99"
created_at: "2012-02-18T20:14:40-05:00"
fulfillment_service: "manual"
grams: 0
id: 201382272
inventory_management: "shopify"
inventory_policy: "deny"
inventory_quantity: -1
option1: "Gold"
option2: null
option3: null
position: 1
price: "29.99"
product_id: 85812592
requires_shipping: true
sku: "charm amethyst"
taxable: true
title: "Gold"
updated_at: "2012-12-01T19:29:32-05:00"
Now, here is link to the Shopify help docs explaining what valid values are for all of the variant's attributes:
http://wiki.shopify.com/Variant#variant.inventory_management
Granted that this link takes you to what looks like liquid code, I would hope that we can expect the same attributes on the back-end to reappear on the front-end. For the most part they do, and here is a list of all of the attributes which definitions are provided for in the previously mentioned link:
1 variant.id
2 variant.title
3 variant.price
4 variant.compare_at_price
5 variant.available
6 variant.inventory_management
7 variant.inventory_quantity
8 variant.inventory_policy
9 variant.weight
10 variant.sku
11 variant.option1
12 variant.option2
13 variant.option3
14 variant.options
15 requires_shipping
16 taxable
Hopefully you've noted that fulfillment_service which appears on the back-end API is not represented on the front-end.
To complicate matters further, another help article has been written to provide definitions for the variant attributes here. The problem with this article is that it mentions a variant attribute called "Variant Inventory Tracker" which doesn't appear anywhere else in the help docs yet seems to contain values that are relevant to both the fulfillment_service and possibly inventory_management variants.
Really appreciate the help here!
