Combined listings break when even one child product has "unlisted" status

Online Store and Theme Development
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Short description of issue

When using combined listings, if one of the child products has the “unlisted” status, the entire combined listing behaves incorrectly and shows products as unavailable even though they are in stock.

Reproduction steps

  1. Create a combined listing with multiple child products
  2. Set at least one or all of the child products to “unlisted”
  3. Ensure all products (including the unlisted one) are in stock and available
  4. Open the product page of the combined listing
  5. Select different product options

Additional info

This issue is not theme-specific, we explicitly verified this in Shopify’s Horizon theme, where the same issue occurs.

Actual result:

  • The product options can be selected
  • The buy button remains “Unavailable” or “Out of stock”
  • The options appear visually disabled (as if out of stock)

Expected behavior:

  • The “unlisted” status should not affect purchasability within a combined listing
  • Products that are available/in stock should remain purchasable
  • The buy button should be active when a valid product is selected

What type of topic is this

Bug report

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Hey @connie :wave: - thanks for the detailed report here.

This does seem like unexpected behaviour to me. The unlisted status is meant to hide products from collections and search results, but shouldn’t affect their purchasability when accessed through a combined listing page.

I’m going to flag this internally and dig into it further.

A couple things that would help with the investigation - could you share your store URL (or a preview link where we can see the combined listing in action)? If you’d prefer not to share that publicly, let me know and I can open a DM with you.

Hope to hear from you soon.