Hide Out-of-Stock Variants in Shopify With These Easy Steps
Published July 2, 2024.
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If you sell many product variations, like different styles of shirts or pants, you might wish to hide one of those variations when you've run out of stock for a particular style. In this post, we'll show you how to hide out-of-stock variants in Shopify by walking you through the steps involved.
» Explore Shopify's variant inventory policy to handle out-of-stock products better
How to Hide Out-of-Stock Variants in Shopify
Using the Shopify Dashboard
Follow these instructions to hide out-of-stock variants using the Shopify dashboard:
- Log in to your Shopify store.
- From the online store area of the Shopify dashboard, navigate to your Products page and select the product that has the variant you want to hide.
- Scroll down the page to the Variants section and click Edit on the variant you want to hide.
- Scrolling down to the Inventory section, uncheck the box that says Continue selling when out of stock located under Track Quantity.
- In the Available area, set the stock Quantity to 0.
- Click Save.
This will remove the item from the list of products available for purchase.
Using a Third-Party App
Managing all your variations via an app is an even easier option to successfully hide out-of-stock variants in Shopify. Apps like Egnition's Out-of-Stock Police will automatically move out-of-stock items to the bottom of your collection pages or let you hide out-of-stock items and their variables.
- Avoid losing organic traffic by hiding out-of-stock products.
- Automatically manage out-of-stock items in real time.
- Free plan available.
» Learn more about this helpful app by reading the following Out-of-Stock Police review
Simplify Hiding Unavailable Variants in Shopify With Egnition
Apart from finding ways to hide out-of-stock variants in Shopify, we recommend that you use stock alerts to keep track of when a product or product variant is going to run out of stock. This will help you better maintain control over your inventory.
Using third-party apps like Out-of-Stock Police by Egnition, you can track Shopify inventory and automate stock alerts to get notifications when stock is low or sold out straight to your email or device.
» Find out if you should hide your out-of-stock products