Can I generate a private product links for specific customers?

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Topic summary

A merchant wants to handle products with no public pricing while enabling select customers to purchase them directly. Their current setup displays “contact for pricing” with no add-to-cart button and aims to avoid Google indexing.

Proposed Solution:

  • Create duplicate product listings: one public (no price, no cart button) and one private (with price and cart button)
  • Publish the private version only to the “Online Store” channel
  • Share private product links directly with customers upon request

Key Concern:
Whether products published only to “Online Store” will still appear in Google search results.

Response:
The duplicate approach is confirmed as viable. Publishing the private version exclusively to the Online Store channel should prevent Google indexing while allowing direct link access for authorized customers. This achieves the goal without requiring third-party apps.

Summarized with AI on November 3. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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We have some products that have no price and are showing ‘contact for pricing’ instead.
So for those items, there are no price set and we don’t want those items to be detected on Google search, either.
There’s no add-to-cart button.

I wonder if I can provide a private link to a customer to let them make an order if a customer contacts us to purchase those items.

To do that can I make a duplicate product link, so one has no price, and apply a product template with no ‘add to cart button’ shown to the public like this? Another product link has a price and add to cart button but this one is hidden all the time but accessible only by request. If I publish this 2nd link only to the ‘online store’ is this product going to be shown on the Google search?

Or I wonder if there’s a better/smarter way to achieve all this for my store. I don’t want to use a 3rd party app for this. if there’s a built-in way that I can do this, please let me know.

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You can create two versions of your product: a public version with “Contact for Pricing” and a hidden “Add to Cart” button, and a private version with the actual price and a visible “Add to Cart” button. Publish the private version only to your “Online Store” channel. This will prevent it from appearing in general Google searches while allowing you to share private links with interested customers for direct purchase.

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