Status and visibility

Products

Shopify offers different statuses for products in their shops (for more information you can go to Adding and updating products):

• Active: the product is ready to be sold in the shop.
• Archived: the product is no longer for sale.
• Draft: the product is not prepared to be sold.

However, as mentioned before, even when selecting to export items with the status All, they will all synch as active. This behavior can be modified by mapping the Sales Layer Status field in the channel, by adding a new field in the Products tab (status field from Shopify). The status visible in Sales Layer will sync as active, draftas draft, and invisible as archived in Shopify. In case you want to handle different statuses for different stores in Shopify, you can add fields to your catalog to manage them separately (creating a “Status 2” field, for example).

Variants

Variants, as mentioned before, have no status.

Collections

Collections have no status but, they do have visibility (published field), so, when excluded from a sync in the same way described before, their visibility will behave as described in Parameters.