Control drafts, visibility and archived products

Before you start #

Identify whether you want to hide a listing temporarily, stop selling it or archive it.

Open Store products and review the active Status filter. Draft & Published is the default view.
Open Edit product and inspect its Status and hidden/catalog-visibility setting. Keep unfinished listings as drafts.
Publish a complete available listing only when its prices, variants, photos and stock are ready. A hidden listing is removed from ordinary catalog discovery.
Use the product’s archive action when retiring it. Archives retain revisions and stock history; use filters to find archived records.
Review the storefront and any old product links. Do not assume hiding a catalog card is a security mechanism for confidential content.

All non-archived listings count toward the 25-parent-product limit, including drafts and hidden products.

Existing orders retain the purchased snapshot. Editing a product does not rewrite what a customer bought.

Only intended listings are discoverable and historical orders remain accurate.

A product in an old cart is no longer eligible? The cart must be reviewed; unavailable items should still be removable.

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