Feature Request: Schedule Products Active to Draft

[BristolOnline]

Our store cycles through a small collection of new products each month, from a large catalogue of draft product listings we keep on standby.

Each month I've been manually swapping the new collection of products from draft to active, and the old collection from active to draft.

I have been searching for a way to automate the old products to become hidden from customers in some way, on a specific schedule. 

I contacted customer support and was told this is not possible to automate yet, so I'm stuck manually making these changes on a Sunday night outside of business hours. 

Since it's already possible to schedule online store publishing, why not the other way? 

[PaulMartin]

Try using Shopify Flow for this one to schedule-update the product's status from Active to Draft and vice versa

[BristolOnline]

This seems like a good solution! I've just downloaded the Flow app for the first time, and have no experience using it. Do you have any tips for getting started so I can recreate the example you showed in your reply?

[PaulMartin]

This should help you get started: How to Automate Your Shopify Store Using Shopify Flow (youtube.com)

Goodluck and have fun! It can do alot of stuff

[Kalen_Jordan]

If you end up needing any help with this, let me know. It's what I focus on!

[BristolOnline]

Hi Kalen, I could use a hand figuring out how to use the right criteria for the "get product data" action. Is there a way I can have the flow recognise 4-6 specific products to then use the "update product status" action? I'm also struggling to understand the "for each" loop instructions I've found. 

[Kalen_Jordan]

You could do "id:1 OR id:2 OR ...." in the query. 

[PaulMartin]

Oh! @BristolOnline, @Kalen_Jordan just commented on your post. I recommend him you to help you with this. I've seen his work on twitter (or X) and at his website, he's good 🤩