I can’t find enough informations anywhere for the pros and cons or if there is a “good” way to handle the store channels.
I’m making a hydrogen storefront, I don’t need a liquid theme shop and the fact that “online shop” is always present everywhere is anoying.
I see that I can “delete” the channel, but will this affect anything about my hydrogen storefront? all i can see is that i “lose” the page object (Dawn theme).
I also want to make sure that i don’t lose the “checkout“.
TLDR: Can i delete the “online shop” sales channel to run solely on the hydrogen one?
Yeah, you can safely delete the “Online Store” channel. Your checkout won’t break - checkout is handled at the platform level, not by the Liquid theme. Just make sure your products are published to your Hydrogen/Headless channel.
That said, I usually recommend keeping it installed but password-protected. If you delete it, you lose access to native Shopify Pages and Blogs (which you might still want to query via the Storefront API). Also, a lot of third-party apps are hardcoded to look for the Online Store channel and will throw errors or refuse to install if it’s missing.
Easier to just hide it behind a password than deal with the app headaches later, tbh.
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Thank you,
I’ll weight the pros and cons and check with my other admins, i don’t want the interface to be confusing to non tech people.
I’ll probably keep it then.