Sidekick integration Rubik Combined Listings Swatch

Sidekick is the AI assistant built into your Shopify admin, and Rubik Combined Listings Swatch works with it directly. Tell Sidekick something like "combine my bags as variants on my store", and it finds the products, opens the app's create page with everything pre-filled, and fills in option values and swatch colors for you. You review the result and click Save. That is the whole flow. Sidekick can edit your existing combined listings the same way: mention one of the products in a group and say what to change.

No setup required. The integration works automatically wherever Sidekick is available in your Shopify admin. The first time you ask Sidekick to use the app, it asks for your permission once, and that is it: no tokens, no configuration.

Watch it in action

Creating a combined listing

A five minute demo: five separate bag products become one listing with color swatches, entirely through Sidekick.

Generating custom swatch images and editing a group

Sidekick analyzes the product photos, generates square swatch images showing each product's pattern, saves them to your Files library, then opens the existing group and assigns every image to the right swatch.

What you can ask Sidekick to do

Create a combined listing in plain language

Describe what you want to combine, in your own words. Sidekick knows your catalog, so it finds the right products itself, opens the create form with all of them added, picks an option name (like Color), and fills each product's option value.

Combine my bags as variants on my store.

Combine the red, blue, and black Aurora hoodies into one listing with color swatches.

Set precise swatch colors from your product photos

Sidekick assigns swatch colors on its own, but you can push it further: ask it to look at the actual product images and set color codes that match what shoppers see in the photos.

Analyze the product images and set more precise color codes.

Improve the option value names

Not happy with plain "Red" and "Pink"? Ask for names that match your brand voice, and Sidekick renames the values in place, for example Cherry Red and Bubblegum Pink.

Set better option values to represent the correct colors.

Edit a group you already created

Sidekick can also change an existing combined listing. Mention one of the products in it and say what you want changed: Sidekick finds the group, opens it, and stages the changes for you to review. If that product belongs to more than one group, you pick which one.

Change the brown swatch on my leggings group to Espresso Brown.

Add the beige tote to the bags group and remove the discontinued grey one.

Use my new fabric swatch images for the leggings swatches.

Editing supports everything creating does, plus removing products and setting custom swatch images from any image in your Files library. As with creating, nothing is written until you click Save. The second video above walks through exactly this: Sidekick generating swatch images and assigning them to an existing group.

Add more products to the open form

While the create form is open, Sidekick can keep working with you: add products you forgot, adjust values, or change colors, all before anything is saved. It can handle up to 25 products per request; for a larger group, just ask it to add the rest in a follow-up.

Also add the beige tote to this group.

An example conversation

You: "I want to combine my bags as variants."

Sidekick: finds your five bag products, asks permission to use the app (first time only), and opens the create form with all five added, option name set to Color, and every option value filled.

You: "Analyze the product images and set more precise color codes."

Sidekick: checks each photo and updates the swatch colors to match the real products.

You: click Save. The bags now appear as one listing with clickable swatches on your storefront: colors on collection pages, product images on product pages.

You stay in control

Sidekick never changes your store on its own. Everything it does happens inside the app's create form, staged and visible, exactly as if you had typed it yourself. You can adjust any value by hand, remove products, use the live swatch preview, and only when you click Save is the combined listing created. Close the form and nothing happened.

And to be precise about what a combined listing does: your products are linked to each other, never merged. Each product keeps its own page, URL, inventory, and SEO value. The app simply displays them as one listing with swatches.

Good to know

Draft products can be included. Archived products cannot, matching how the app's own product picker works.
A group can start with one product. You can add more later as your catalog grows.
Custom swatch images are set when editing, not when creating. Create the group first, then ask Sidekick to set the swatch images. Any image in your Files library works, including one Sidekick just generated for you, and it does not need to be attached to the product.
Deleting a whole group stays in the app. Sidekick can remove products from a group, but a group always keeps at least one product; delete the group itself from its page in the app.
Challenge it. If Sidekick does not use a capability on its own, ask directly ("analyze the product images and set precise colors"), and it will.

Sidekick or the MCP server?

Both let AI work with your combined listings, and they complement each other. Sidekick lives inside your Shopify admin, needs zero setup, and is the fastest way to create or adjust a combined listing. The MCP server connects external assistants like Claude and covers the wider surface of the app: grouping your whole catalog at once, styling swatches, and changing settings. Use whichever fits the moment; they work on the same groups.

Troubleshooting

Sidekick says it cannot help: phrase the request around combining, for example "combine my ... into one listing with swatches", and make sure the app is installed and you approved the permission prompt.
Sidekick seems stuck on outdated information: start a new Sidekick conversation and ask again.
Some products did not appear in the form: archived products are skipped on purpose, and requests are handled up to 25 products at a time, so ask Sidekick to add the remaining ones.

Questions or ideas for what Sidekick should do next? Message us in the chat, we would love to hear how you use it.