Hiding out of stock products (but not TOO hidden)

[omegacanuck]

Looking to find a way to hide out of stock products so that they aren't found when just browsing the website (especially through Product Type) but that they're still viewable if someone has a direct link, like say their order history, or a Google result, or, you know an actual direct link.   Just want them hidden when people are browsing product types.

Any ideas?  Thanks.

[PaulNewton]

@omegacanuck  That requires advanced theme customizations to not render products for the property urls like ?types or ?vendors and in endpoints like search.

At minimum for smart collections add a condition to ignore out of stock products, sometimes by using tags in tandem with shopify-flow or other automations.

For manual collections again use auomations using shopify-flow or usemehanic to remove sold out products from the collections.

Examples https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?q=out%20of%20stock 

There's also content-gating apps like locksmith (also made by lightward, developers of mechanic)

https://www.locksmith.guide/faqs/can-locksmith-hide-content-from-my-in-store-search 

If you need this advanced customization and automations then contact me by my email for services.
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[BSSCommerce-B2B]

Hi @omegacanuck,

I hope you are doing well.

The product is listed in some kind of section; each kind has a different way to show the product card. If you are using Dawn, here are examples how to hide out-of-stock products

1. Featured Products

Open file "product-collection.liquid", find {%- for product in section.settings.collection.products and add these codes right after forloop

{% unless product.available %}{% continue %}{% endunless %}

2. Collection

Open file "main-collection-product-grid.liquid", find {%- for product in collection.products -%} and add these codes right after forloop

{% unless product.available %}{% continue %}{% endunless %}

3. Related products

Open file "related-products.liquid", find {% for recommendation in recommendations.products %} and add these codes right after forloop

{% unless recommendation.available %}{% continue %}{% endunless %}

4. Search suggestion

Open file "predictive-search.liquid", find {%- for product in predictive_search.resources.products -%} and add these codes right after forloop

{% unless product.available %}{% continue %}{% endunless %}

5. Search page

Open file "main-search.liquid", find {%- when 'product' -%} and add these codes right after when tag

{% unless item.available %}{% continue %}{% endunless %}

I hope this is useful to you.