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Selecting Products for Sync

Omega Feed lets you decide exactly which products — and which variants of those products — end up in a feed. Three settings control this:


  1. Product source → What to sync — which products go in.
  2. Exclude products — which products are taken back out.
  3. Variant selection — how many variants of each product are listed.


The Product source card on the feed settings page


Product source: what to sync


Only Active products in your Shopify store are eligible for a feed. Products in Draft or Archived status are never synced, no matter which option you pick.


  • All products — best for stores that want their whole catalog advertised.
  • Products from collections — best for stores that already organize their catalog by collection (e.g. "Google Ads", "Best sellers", "Summer 2026").
  • Products in specific tags — best for merchants who use tags (e.g. google-feed, no-ads) to control what gets advertised.
  • Pick individual products — best for small, curated feeds where you want to approve every item.


Your situation

Choose

Advertise the whole catalog

All products

Catalog is bigger than your plan limit

All products within plan limit

Catalog is already grouped for advertising

Products from collections

You mark advertisable products with tags

Products in specific tags

You want to approve every single item

Pick individual products


The product picker with a few products selected


Exclude products


Sometimes the easiest way to describe a feed is "everything except these". Tick Exclude products and choose one of:


  • Exclude by collection — every Active product in the selected collections is left out.
  • Exclude individual products — the specific products you pick are left out.


Exclude from product source, with "Exclude by collection" selected


Variant selection


Variant selection does not change which products are in the feed — it changes how many rows each product contributes. A product with 5 variants can appear as 5 feed items or just 1, depending on this setting.


  • All variants — every variant is submitted as its own feed item. Best for products whose variants differ in ways shoppers search on (price, image, size, color) or where availability varies per variant. This is the most complete option and usually the best choice for Google Shopping.
  • First variant only — only the first variant in each product's variant list (the order shown in Shopify) is submitted. Best for catalogs where variants are near-identical and one representative item per product is enough.
  • Lowest-priced variant only — only the lowest-priced variant is submitted. Best for showing the most attractive "from" price in your ads.


Products with a single variant behave identically under all three options. Variant selection is applied per feed, so you can run All variants on one channel and Lowest-priced variant only on another.


Your goal

Choose

List every size/color so shoppers find the exact item

All variants

One item per product

First variant only

Advertise the lowest available price

Lowest-priced variant only


The Variant selection options


Troubleshooting


A product isn't in my feed

Check in order: is it Active in Shopify? Is it inside the source you selected (collection, tag, or manual list)? Is it caught by an exclusion? Has the sync finished running?


I added new products but they aren't showing up

Pick individual products is a static list — new products must be added manually. All other options pick up new Active products on the next sync.


I see fewer items than I have products

That's expected with First variant only and Cheapest variant only — one item per product. It can also mean you're on All products within plan limit and your catalog exceeds the plan maximum.


The options are greyed out

Either a sync is currently running (wait for the progress bar to complete), or the option needs a higher plan — look for the upgrade badge next to it.

Updated on: 18/08/2026

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