Create a hidden products via SDK

[gk-wa]

I am creating a plugin for Shopify.

My requirement is the following:

1. When a user visits the product page I want to create and show an Add-on product that is created on the fly

2. I want that add-on product to be purchasable

3. The product should not be listed in the store nor be searchable

I have written logic for the products that are created dynamically and purchasable. But I need your input in making the product hidden on the store.

Your help is appreciated!

Thanks

[Jason]

There's a metafield that will help to remove it from your shopify search - assuming you use that are not leveraging a third party search app. Add that to the product and it will be much harder for someone to find it.

Take a look at this page:
https://shopify.dev/api/examples/marketing-seo#hide-a-resource-from-search-engines-and-sitemaps

You will also need to make sure it doesn't show in collections like the default "all" one. 

[gk-wa]

Thank you @Jason

I will enable the SEO meta data part.

But I don't understand 

> You will also need to make sure it doesn't show in collections like the default "all" one. 

I tried creating an automated collection and added some products to it. But I still see the products on the home page.

Can you please elaborate or share some docs about it?

Thanks

[Jason]

Hard to elaborate without seeing the code of your theme. But in general, as the code loops over the products to show you would need to either:

1. skip those products (eg: if product has that metafield don't show it)
2. or make sure they are removed from the collection in the first place.

Now option 1 has drawbacks to in which you might expect to see 20 products on a page. if there's 3 products being skipped you'd only see 17. Layouts can look odd a times hence why trying to avoid them being in collections in the first place is ideal.