Getting started with Luv Variant Images
1. Install and open
Install Luv Variant Images from the Shopify App Store. It's coming soon: join early access and we'll email you the day it's live. Install it and approve the permissions it asks for:
- Products: to read each product's photos, options and variants, to save its setup on the product, and to set each variant's main image when you choose.
- Themes: to tell you whether the app embed (and another variant image app's) is switched on.
Then open it from Apps in your Shopify admin. Home shows your setup checklist. You start on the Free plan (one product); Settings › Plan shows every plan, and paid plans start with a 14-day free trial (see plans and billing).
2. Turn on the app embed
Online Store → Themes → Customize → App embeds (the icon at the bottom of the left sidebar) → switch on Luv Variant Images → Save. The checklist on Home has a button that opens that screen with the embed ready to switch on. The embed loads only on product pages you've set up, so nothing changes anywhere else.
3. Find the products that need it
On Home, click Look through my products. Shopify gets your whole catalog ready for Luv Variant Images in one go (a minute or two for big catalogs; any size works), and it lists the ones with options like color or flavor whose photos already show which option they belong to (variant images that differ by color, file names and alt text that name the values). You can also ask Ady: “Which products could use variant images?”
4. Set up a product
Open a product from Products. Luv Variant Images suggests a setup straight away: each photo is tied to the value it shows, and the rest stay shared by every variant. Every photo says why it was placed. To change one, pick a value in the row above the photos and click the photos that show for it; click again to untie one. Assign for me offers three ways to start over: Smart (recommended), By image order and By alt text. What shoppers see, below, shows each value's gallery as it will look. Click Save, and shoppers see it within a minute.
5. Check it on your store
Click View on store in the product. Pick another color or flavor and the gallery, thumbnails and zoom change with it. If another variant image app is still switched on in your theme, the checklist says so: turn its app embed off once your products are set up here, because two apps filtering one gallery fight each other.
Next: how setups work, including main images, two options at once, Needs a look and the settings.
Questions? hi@customerluv.app — a founder answers every message.