Shopify Catalog / Everything In The Shop App Change is really hurting us

Changelog
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Our merchants have all sorts of products that need to be active in the online store, but not in other channels - not indexed by openai and not put into the shop app by default.

These include POS only products, wholesale only products, retail only products that need to be visible but not purchaseable - a whole slew of products that SHOULD BE PRODUCTS - but should not be in places that we don’t want them, like the shop app. This is creating huge issues for multiple merchants we support.

PLEASE PLEASE bring back some kind of channel controls here - the new unlisted products are great but they don’t help with this issue - for instance, a collection of products only available in store, or the products on dedicated wholesale accounts, or all the other products that worked perfectly well in all our systems until this change.

2

Does duplicating the product and hiding one set not work? (i.e using the seo.hidden custom metafield or unlisted product status.)

3

SEO hidden doesn’t fully solve this because in many cases we want these products visible as products in the online store - for instance - products that wholesale customers can buy, or products that link to a store locator. THEORETICALLY seo.hidden removes a product - but we’ve seen other exclusion rules (like not having shipping rates) not work consistently to remove products from the shop app (and presumably everywhere else that uses the new catalog)