Updating Product Status

The product status field is intended to help manage products before you're ready to sell them and after you're done selling them. You can use Ablestar Bulk Product Editor to edit the Product Status field in bulk.

Choose if you prefer the 'In-App Edit' or 'Spreadsheet' method:

1. In-App Edits

The Status field only has three options:

• Draft: Product becomes unpublished and can be re-published at a later time. Users will not be able to find this product from the store view.
• Active: Product is now visible from the store view.
• Archived: Product become unpublished and removed from the admin view. Users will not be able to find this product from the store view, and admins can re-use or re-publish again later if needed. All data analytics are retained.

To delete any product, return to the Shopify Admin view instead.

2. Spreadsheet Edits

Prep your spreadsheet to include product status data to replace existing data, noting that the valid values for this field are not case sensitive:

• draft
• active
• archived

To delete product data using a spreadsheet, please refer to this article.

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

• Archiving products is preferred rather than deleting so that you can retain analytics and potentially bring back the product in the future
• Shopify does not retain any meta data for deleted products
• The Product Status field was added to Shopify in January 2021
• In the Shopify admin view, you can also set the status to 'Active', 'Draft', 'Archive' or 'Delete'

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