Hi, We’re just switched to Shopify POS from Lightspeed Onsite POS and are getting used to all the back end changes that requires. One of the things that’s different is product management and we’re happy to have the new ‘Archived’ status. Since we’ve switched we’ve started to use the Archived status…

I agree completely. We have a lot of products which are archived but we don’t want to remove them. Currently the main list shows everything. It should either default to “Active” or at least remember which list I have it filtered by even when returning to the site. Having to click the filter “Active”…

100%. I don’t want to delete the products but I’m tired of the archived products showing in my “products out of stock” section. They should be totally hidden unless you search for them! @Shopify_77 please can you fix this or add a setting to hide products from all pages?

I 100% Agree. We have 10K products and we almost NEVER want to see archived product in our lists. Please make this a default option, Shopify!

Oh yes, please. I came here looking for exactly this feature. Shopify, please make this happen.

Yes we would like this feature too!

I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who wants Archived products to be hidden by default. Thank you everyone for confirming that my expectations are pretty normal. I also realized that Shopify has hidden the search field in the Products admin (and added clicks to our work flow) but they still…

I feel your pain. If only it were possible for Shopify to ‘remember’ the settings we like. It’s not impossible, just not something that the dev’s see a need for. I’ve worked closely with a couple of EPOS providers over the past decade and I always say to them “if you want to know if your software…

Is this addressed by excluding products with 0 inventory in collections?

Yes, that is one way, of many. However, that is an additional step every time you run a filter or search. Simply NEVER showing items that I don’t want to see (because I’ve archived them) would be a much better scenario

Feature Request: Archived products should be hidden by default

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Noah_D March 19, 2021, 6:04pm 2

I also want to mention that archived products are shown in the product count of collections when you create a collection tile. They should be hidden here as well.

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Feature Request: Archived products should be hidden by default

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