You can delete a single product in your store or remove multiple products at once (for example, get rid of all sample products). When you remove a product, it’s permanently deleted from your store, but is still displayed in the sales history on the Orders page in your store admin. If you want to hide any product from customers but don’t want to delete it, you can disable it instead.
Disable products
Hiding particular products from customers can be helpful if you sell seasonal clothes, Holiday specials, or just run out of stock. Disabled products will not be shown to your customers, but they will remain in your catalog in the store admin. You can enable them at any time.
To hide products from customers:
- From your store admin, go to Catalog → Products.
- Turn off the Enabled toggler for the product you want to disable.
To disable products in bulk, select products you want to disable (you can use product filter to find all the items you want to disable) and click Mass Update → Enable or Disable → Disable Selected.
To show the product, turn the toggler back on.
Delete products
You can delete any product if you are not going to sell it. You also need to remove test products after creating a store so when you go live your customers won’t be confused with the test items.
If you want to remove a product from a category, you can unassign the product from this category. If you want to remove products from the Featured Products section only, you should remove these products from the default Store Front Page category.
Deleting one product
To permanently delete a product from your catalog:
- From your store admin, go to Catalog → Products.
- Find a product you want to delete.
- For this product click on the v icon next to the Edit Product option to unfold the dropdown menu.
- Select Delete Product:
- Confirm you want to delete this product.
- From your iOS app, go to Products.
- Tap on the product that you want to delete.
- Tap Edit and select Delete Product.
- Tap Delete to confirm the deletion.
- From your Android app, go to Products.
- Tap on the product that you want to delete.
- Tap on the pen icon in the right upper corner and select Delete product.
- Tap Delete to confirm the deletion.
Deleting several products
You can get rid of several items at once. For example, when you want to remove demo products that are added to your store to show you examples of product setup.
To delete several products at once:
- From your store admin, go to Catalog → Products.
- Select products you want to delete. You can use filters to locate all items meeting certain criteria (for example, all Disabled items or products displayed in the store front).
- Click Mass Update that appears on the top of the product list.
- Choose Delete Selected.
- Confirm your choice.