In the Admin → inventory list view I see all of my archived products as missing inventory. It makes no sense to me why archived products are ever shown anywhere in the inventory list. Is there any way to filter the inventory list view in such a way as to hide archived items completely? I really do…

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I have contacted the shopify support team and they mentioned adding tags to filter out the inventory view? It’s not a solution to add tags to filter the inventory view. This means I would have to manually archive items but also keep up with what I have tagged also as “Archived”. This is a terrible i…

I agree, Archived products showing in the inventory tab is super annoying. When I want to transfer products I have to scroll through all these old products. Anyway this can be resolved? besides tagging. At this stage im contemplating just deleting products rather than archiving.

Any luck? I’m having the same issue

I agree that (not unlike many aspects of Shopify functionality), the way their archive feature functions is useless. I did finally find a relatively easy workaround for this particular issue though, so I wanted to share. Archived items seem to no longer be active on any sales channel, so you can us…

I know it’s been awhile, so you may not need this any longer, but here’s a slightly easier workaround I found: Archived items seem to no longer be active on any sales channel, so you can use the ‘Availability’ filter in the inventory view and set it to whichever channel has all of your products on …

I know it’s been some time so this might not help you now, but here’s a slightly easier workaround that worked for me: Archived items seem to no longer be active on any sales channel, so you can use the ‘Availability’ filter in the inventory view and set it to whichever channel has all of your prod…

You can disable the track quantity field via bulk editor for all archived products. [jonasgoddeeris_0-1694776927851.png]

While useful to know, the problem was about not seeing archived products in the inventory list.

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mblaroche January 27, 2025, 6:28pm 14

This appears to be the simplest (ie easiest) way to work around the issue. Thank-you!

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