Hide specific products from appearance in the catalog

[Drafter500]

Hello!

I am developing an app that allows shops to import our products into their catalog which they then display in specific places on the online shop or create a specific collection that is shown in the dedicated page. But after the products are imported and published they are automatically visible in their main catalog page. This is undesirable, the shops want only their own products to be visible in the catalog and in the ‘all’ collection. Is there a way for me as an app developer to programmatically hide our produts from the shop’s catalog page?

I already use seo.hidden = 1 metafield but that only prevents our products from being seachable. Suggesting shop owners to change their liquid code to hide our products by tag is not really a good option, it should be automatic.

Regards
Vladimir

[KyleG-Shopify]

Hey @Drafter500,

Since your products are being automatically added to their main collection, it sounds like they are using a smart collection for this.

In this case, they should update their collections to exclude your vendor products. Here’s an example of what that could look like in the admin:

Alternatively, you could use the collectionUpdate mutation to update their collections to add this condition.

collectionUpdate - GraphQL Admin