Feature Request: Schedule Products Active to Draft

Topic summary

Feature request to automate monthly product rotation by toggling product status between Active (visible) and Draft (hidden) on a schedule.

  • Constraint: Support initially said this isn’t automatable. The thread proposes a workaround using Shopify Flow (an automation tool for scheduled/event-driven workflows).

  • Proposed solution: Use a scheduled trigger in Shopify Flow to “update product status” from Active to Draft and vice versa. A screenshot was shared illustrating the setup. A YouTube tutorial was provided for onboarding.

  • Assistance: A Flow specialist offered help and was endorsed by another participant, with a link to his website.

  • Implementation details/questions: The requester asked how to target 4–6 specific products with the “Get product data” action and about using a “for each” loop. Guidance given: filter products in the query by listing IDs, e.g., “id:1 OR id:2 OR …”.

  • Outcomes: No final implementation confirmed yet. The discussion remains open as the requester is still refining the Flow configuration.

  • Notes: The shared image (Flow example) is central to understanding the proposed setup.

Summarized with AI on December 19. AI used: gpt-5.

This seems like a good solution! I’ve just downloaded the Flow app for the first time, and have no experience using it. Do you have any tips for getting started so I can recreate the example you showed in your reply?

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