Managing Product Status for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
When editing products, you can schedule them to expire or unpublish them manually to remove them from your store catalog.
To expire a product,
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Navigate to Control Panel → Commerce → Products.
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Click on a product.
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Uncheck the Never Expire checkbox on the Products Details tab. This configuration affects all the SKUs of the product.
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Enter a future expiration date and time. All times are set using the GMT time zone.
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Click Publish.
After making the changes, it may take some time to remove the product from the catalog, because the default check interval is 15 minutes. You change this by opening the Global Menu (
) and navigating to Control Panel → System Settings. Once there, go to Catalog → Products. Change the Check Interval value and click Save.
You can change the product visibility by entering a new expiration date and republishing the product.
Setting a Product as Draft
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Navigate to Control Panel → Commerce → Products.
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Click a product.
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Click on Save as Draft.
You cannot search for the product or view it in the storefront after setting it to the draft status.
If you have an approval workflow in place to publish products, you must go through it to publish the product again. If you want to remove the product from the storefront and publish it back again without going through the approval workflow, you can uncheck the Published checkbox and click Publish.
