Hello,
I’m not aware of any way within the Shopify admin to delete out of stock products over a year old but it is something you can do with our Ablestar Bulk Product Editor app. Once you have the app installed you just need to search for products with:
- Inventory Quantity < 1
- Date updated older than 365 ago
The click on Edit Products at the top of the page and tell the app that you want to delete the products:
Then click on Delete Products and the app will delete those products for you.
A few other things to keep in mind:
- The updated date that you’re searching for will be changed any time a product’s fields or inventory is changed. If you change the product’s description after the stock drops to zero it will have a more recent updated date
- You can also set up repeating edits to run this process automatically but we would recommend logging in once a month and doing it manually. Deleting products is one of the few things that you can’t undo in our app and it’s good to make sure you’re not accidentally deleting products you don’t want to.
We also have a YouTube video with more details on how to bulk delete products in Shopify:
I hope this helps some, happy to answer any follow up questions. Best,
Daniel