📝 Overview
Archiving a product removes it, along with all of its variants, from your Store so it can no longer be purchased. This is useful when you have stopped selling a product and want to tidy it out of your product list.
This guide walks you through archiving a product from your Business Dashboard, and how to have one reinstated if you need it back.
💡 If you only want to stop selling one variant rather than the whole product, you can set that variant to inactive instead. See how here.
🗄️ How to Archive a Product
You archive a product from within the product section itself, in the Store section of your Business Dashboard. Once archived, the product and all of its variants are removed from your Store. To archive a product:
Go to Store ➜ Products.
Click on the product you want to archive.
Click Options on the top-right corner, and select Archive.
A confirmation pop-up will appear. Click on Archive, and the product will immediately be archived.
Once that's done, you will be redirected to the main page of this product, where the Store visibility status will now display "Archived".
⚠️ Archiving removes the product and all of its variants from your Store. If you only want to hide one variant, set it to inactive instead.
🔄 How to Reinstate an Archived Product
To reinstate an Archived product, follow these steps:
Navigate to your Store section, and click on the Show Archived option on the top of your product table.
This will generate a product table of your archived store items. Click on the store item you would like to unarchive.
Click on Options, and then Edit.
Scroll down and click on the Store Status drop-down, and set the store item to either "For Sale" so that it's visible in your customer site store so that customers can purchase it themselves, or "For Sale. Hidden in the store", so that customers can't purchase it themselves, but you can process the purchase on their account on their behalf.
Once that's done, you will be redirected to the main page of this product, where the Store visibility status will now display the status you selected.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Find answers to common questions or additional details that may not be covered in the main instructions.
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What's the difference between archiving a product and setting a variant to inactive?
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Archiving removes the whole product and all of its variants from your Store at once. Setting a variant to inactive removes only that single variant, leaving the rest of the product available.
💡 See how to set a variant to inactive here.
Does archiving a product affect past orders?
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Archiving removes the product from your Store so it can no longer be purchased. Orders that have already been placed remain in your order history and reports.