Feature Suggestion - Hidden Products

Products and Orders APIs
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Hi all,

I’m not sure if this has been asked before, but I think it would be very helpful to have a third Product Status of ‘Hidden’.

My suggestion is that this should:

  • hide the product from seach engines;
  • hide it from the /collections/all and also all other collections;
  • make the product only be able accessible via an app;
  • I don’t think it should even be accessible via direct URL.

This would be very useful for apps that allow certain products to only be added to cart in specific circumstances (eg. bundle apps, or gift wrapping, or special addons). I know most of these things can be achieved manually, but it makes it hard for merchants. Would be amazing if this was part of core Shopify.

Also, I am aware of the seo.hidden metafield but my understanding is that it only hides products from the shopify search. They still show up in collections, and all other areas, etc.

Thank you so much,
Adam

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Removing online store channel from the sales channels will do:

  • hide the product from seach engines - by giving 404 when robots crawl the page;
  • hide it from the /collections/all and also all other collections;
  • make the product only be able accessible via an app - you still have other channels enabled;
  • I don’t think it should even be accessible via direct URL - will return 404 not found.
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Hi @Merchbees ,

Thank you very much for your reply & suggestion.

I think that products that have the online store channel disabled are not able to be added to cart as part of bundles or as addon products (eg. gift wrapping) though?