Product Visibility Statuses
Shopit gives you the ability to automatically set the default status of an item according to its stock level.
There are two statuses where you can set a product's visibility are:
- When in Stock
- When Out of Stock
The visibility statuses to choose from are:
Website Status | Status on CSV import | Notes |
Active and Purchaseable | purchasable | available to view and buy |
Active and Unpurchaseable | unpurchasable | available to view but not buy.
Often used when an item is pre-launch, out of stock, or restricted |
Disabled and Hidden | disabled | A temporary status when the product is not available to view or buy |
Permanently Unavailable and Hidden | unavailable | a permanent status when the item is not available to view or buy |
Therefore a product will have 3 statuses in total, across 2 cells, in the Shopit database e.g.
- Visibility Status: purchasable
- Sold out Status: disabled
- When back in Stock: unpurchasable
Which would look like this on the CSV:
Visibility | Sold Out Status |
purchasable | disabled/unpurchasable |
Here:
- The item's normal status (today) is (active and) purchasable.
- When it's sold out, it will revert to disabled and be hidden from the site user
- When back in stock, the status will be (active and) unpurchasable - because you need to check back orders etc before making fully purchasable again.
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