Hi! If delete products that we will no longer be offering will it affect reporting? i want to make sure YTD and future reporting stay accurate when looking at sales and inventory.
Thanks!
Hey, @crystalg ! Welcome to Shopify Community!
The reports in your Shopify admin capture the details of an order at the time of the sale. Because orders will remain to exist despite products being deleted, the products will still show in your reports, and the sales history of those deleted products will remain.
The case is similar with edited products. If you make changes to product details, such as the name or product type, the old version will remain in reports; however, the new version will also appear in your reports. If you wish to learn more about this, you can refer to our sales report guide in the Shopify Help Center.
I’m glad to see you’re utilizing the analytics in your admin! These reports can be very effective in boosting the sales of your store. The data it collects is very valuable as you can use it to draw insights that will influence the growth of your business. If you’re wondering how you can make the most of your reports to increase conversion, feel free to go through this free course on How to Use Data to Increase Conversion Rate (CRO). It will help you delve into your reports, use different types of data from different channels and come up with optimization strategies that you can implement in your store.
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Hey its 2022 and wanted to notify others that the answer is partly correct. While the ui reports will not be affected, the data from the api will have discrepancies. At the moment deleted variants wont be returned with the order data and line item cost.
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That’s correct.
Shopify confirms this
Deleted objects are not available in the API. The product variant ID is the only detail you can get when a product variant is deleted. Other details are not available.
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-flow/reference/triggers/product-variant-deleted#api-details