Default product status when adding new product

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I’ve done about 20 today, switched from draft to active and they were pretty much instant, available on my site x

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We get that, but it seems like an extra step in the process that wasn’t there before. Most of the other platforms (woocommerce, Magento, etc) that we have worked with make “Published” the default status when creating a new product, with the option to change to draft when needed.

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I agree, the choice should be left to the store. I would prefer all of my listings be active automatically. Having to switch this has also hindered my workflow.

thanks…

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Exactly. I already have employees who don’t fill out all the info and now that’s one extra step I have to do and recheck . The default should be active. Not draft. Please change this!

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I agree. Since this change has come about it has given me more work to do. It is awful. If they want something to be a draft they should have to toggle it on. We should have to do any extra step because a handful of people wanted it to be a draft. The majority want the product on ASAP and it should default to active. I already have employees who don’t fill out all the info and now that’s one extra step I have to do and recheck . The default should be active. Not draft. Please change this! Thank u.

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I entered some items as a ‘draft’ and printed barcodes. I wasn’t ready to make them available for purchase at the time. But now that I am ready to make these products available on the site and in store, the barcode will not scan on our Ipads nor is the item showiing up in the search… Can you please assist with this?

Thank you so much!

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Hello,

I would like to 2nd this. Having a product default to draft is a huge hindrance to work flow. I think the default should be active or at the very minimum allow merchants to choose what their default is.

I hope this gets changed.

Thanks for the consideration,

Daniel

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Yes please, either make ACTIVE the default or at least give us choice to make all of our listings active as we post them. I’m sure I probably have posted some products that aren’t active, just because I missed changing them from draft!

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I am new to Shopify and learning it right now. I am on collection page, is there a way I can get current collection?

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Yes! Any chance you’ve figured it out?

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WHY??? Just getting back on here religiously after over a year and can’t BELIEVE how long it is taking me to upload products now! It’s EXHAUSTING! Much like Instagram, STOP fixing what IS NOT broken! ACTIVE IS what most of your customers probably prefer, MAKE it the default!? Listen to your customers! And WAY more importantly, WHY am I having to rotate a majority of my pics after uploading now??? WOW! Talk about frustrating!!! It takes SOOOO long! If there is no fix, again, return it to how it was!??, aside from altering something in my pics prior, I will definitely be exploring other options than Shopify. So stupid! Please tell me there is an easy solution!!! THANK YOU BOB)

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We would much prefer that products are automatically set to draft when copied up from our POS. Once the description and media are updated, then we set them to active. Is there a way to choose your preference?

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I have discovered that the default is now active - not good when you load multiple items a day on our epos system and need it to default to inactive until you are ready to make live. Why is this, I need to set the default back to inactive

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For me it is stupid to now default to Active when the products are loaded via POS and should not be active until they have been completely updated

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Why cant we just choose??? Also when I upload my CSV there is no column header option to indicate STATUS although on the help file it clearly shows that Status is an option. SeriouslY??

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export/using-csv

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Hi there,

We create products via Printful (API). It seems like even these are now being set to ‘Draft’ as a default. How can we make these product ‘Active’ on creation? It slows down our process dramatically. It looks like this has just changed within the last 24-48 hours.

Thanks.

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Shopify, can we get a fix to this. I personally will never use the Draft feature, I would appreciate the ability for items to go straight to Active.

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I agree with every other person on this post, ACTIVE should be default. This is part of the reason we opted to create our own product entry page…

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Ugh - no, newly created products should NOT default to active, because this means they are automatically presented on the website when they may not be ready. For example, if you create a new product, it goes active, and you haven’t set a price, you are now officially selling 0 priced items… Who’s going to pay for that?!?

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We clearly run our store very different from you.