Ecommerce Plugin: Variant Options Trash Type Error Prevents Variant Creation

[columk1]

Describe the Bug

Issue

When a variant is added in the admin panel, if there is a variant in the trash, an error will be thrown.

Once there is a single variant in the trash, adding new variants will always throw an error.

Reason

Variants that are in the trash are queried in a join during the update operation. These are not populated, which causes an error when the variant.options array is accessed with a .length call.

Link to the code that reproduces this issue

https://github.com/columk1/payload-e-commerce-variants-repro

Reproduction Steps

1. Log in to the admin panel

• email: testuser@test.com
• password: 123456

2. Go to Products > Hat

3. Add a color variant and see error.

• Note: If for some reason the variants trash is empty, soft delete a color variant first. Then try adding one to see the error.

Which area(s) are affected?

plugin: ecommerce

Environment Info

Binaries:
  Node: 25.3.0
  npm: 11.7.0
  Yarn: 1.22.22
  pnpm: 10.28.2
Relevant Packages:
  payload: 3.73.0
  next: 15.4.11
  @payloadcms/db-sqlite: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/drizzle: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/email-nodemailer: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/graphql: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/live-preview: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/live-preview-react: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/next/utilities: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/plugin-form-builder: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/plugin-seo: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/richtext-lexical: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/translations: 3.73.0
  @payloadcms/ui/shared: 3.73.0
  react: 19.2.1
  react-dom: 19.2.1
Operating System:
  Platform: darwin
  Arch: arm64
  Version: Darwin Kernel Version 25.2.0: Tue Nov 18 21:09:40 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.61.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000
  Available memory (MB): 16384
  Available CPU cores: 8

[github-actions]

🚀 This is included in version v3.75.0

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