How to stop Shopify showing Archived products?

[Ben31]

Hi There,

We have a number of archived products that will be coming back in future but in the meantime, we don't want these products cogging up the product screens in Shopify admin, Shopify apps and third-party apps.

But because all product views across Shopify and apps default to 'All' it means these archived products clog everything up anyway which is kind of pointless - right?

Is there a way to set 'All' so that 'Archived' products don't show - or is there another way around this?

Remember, any solution also needs to apply to apps - we've even tried naming archived products with a 'z' in front, to try to push them to the end but apps don't seem to display products using name order.

Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Ben

[Shay]

Hi @Ben31 

Thank you for sharing your question here, I can definitely understand having a large catalogue and wanting to be able to easily filter out your unavailable products from view. 

At this time Shopify does not offer the ability to save views as a default view in the products or orders list in the admin. I can't speak for apps though, as I believe that is something they might be able to implement. 

I have shared this feedback with our developers and hopefully this is something we can implement soon! 

[Ben31]

Thanks Shay

[Wunderlink]

Shay, can you please push this request to engineering? What is the point of "archived" if it doesn't exclude items from common views?

It's extremely frustrating to constantly be shown products that have been archived. This happens not only in the frequently visited admin products view, but also slows us down when using any app that pulls products, showing a list of ALL products in the shop instead of just non-archived products.

Considering the frequency with which Shopify users build / edit product related portions (aka everything) of their site, this oversight is wasting millions (billions?) of hours of peoples time. 

Other forum posts / complaints also recognize this:

https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-apps/feature-request-archived-products-should-be-hidden-by-d...
https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-discussions/have-a-default-view-in-the-admin-product-list-pa...

[bauersbrew]

I have been wondering this forever. IT'S SO FRUSTRATING. After all this time, still nothing. I feel like this is a basic, common sense feature to have - yet we get all these other more intricate and complicated updates. I'm so tired of seeing Archived products all over the place - ESPECIALLY getting CONSTANT notifcations and "error" messages from other platforms like Meta. 

[Ben31]

Still a daily frustration sorry, hopefully something is being done? Cheers

[jon1999]

Couldn't agree more.  This situation must be almost impossible to deal with in some Stores.