It would be great if i can view and edit my inventory without viewing the archived products. It would streamline my work flow. I have a lot of products I archive seasonally. Having to sort through them each time i’m updating product inventory of items that are available is tedious.
I tried a workaround, by tagging archived items, but that didn’t work in the inventory view.
As I manage well over 100 products, this would be incredibly helpful. Anyone else?
Thanks
Hi @ScentFluence 
These are the peer to peer forums, shopify staff pulled stakes long ago.
For actual feature requests or support contact shopify support advisor DIRECTLY:
https://help.shopify.com/ → click “Chat with a human” (as of 2026)
The shopify admin is a bare minimum feature set for 5+ MILLION use cases, don’t build your custom needs and process around such a thing.
Make your own process that’s meets actual day to day needs not hostage to the bare minimum a billion dollar company bothers with, , and is resilient to change when they do things that will mess up some workflows.
Shopify doesn’t have a native way to filter out archived products on the Inventory page, so they’ll keep showing up even after you archive them.
Best workaround right now is filtering by sales channel (since archived products aren’t available) or using tags to separate active vs archived, but it’s not clean. If you’re dealing with this in bulk, tools like Altera can at least let you export, filter out archived items, and work off a cleaner dataset.
To view all non-archived inventory items, search for:
-product_status:archived
Alternatively, you could also search for active and draft to get the same result:
product_status:active,draft
Then click “Save” on the right to save this as a filter:
