When adding or creating a product, under the Locations tab, there's a toggle to "Use defaults" that can be enabled or disabled to foster more product variation.
The "Defaults" it's referring to is from the "Variants & Defaults" section on the Product Details tab. For most people, using the defaults works just fine, but we wanted to give you the option for varying location-specific price, cost, reorder point, and target.
Setting the Use Defaults toggle to ON:
This will use the costs, prices, reorder point and target set in the Variants & Pricing section.
When you update a default value, all locations using defaults will be updated simultaneously.
Setting the Use Defaults toggle to OFF:
This will let you set custom costs, prices, reorder point, and reorder target for that location.
NOTE: Shopify will not allow a product to have different prices, for different locations, when they are on the same Shopify account.
Use Cases
You can think of this as a location "override." Suppose you have multiple locations, and the pricing is the same at all of them except one. The majority will "Use defaults," and the other can have its own details.
If you have a single location, this feature can be used for temporary changes. For example, you may normally sell a product for $10, but want it temporarily listed at $8. You can turn "Use defaults" off and set the new price to $8. When the sale is over, all I need to do is turn "Use defaults" back on and the item will revert to its usual price without having to type it in again.
Bulk Options
Toggle the "Use defaults" option ON or OFF in bulk using the Edit Variants Bulk Upload.
If any location-specific data is updated in bulk, the "Use defaults" toggle will automatically be disabled.