Hide sold-out Shopify products automatically
Use Power Tools Smart Delete and sold-out product tools to hide unavailable products, move sold-out products down, and create redirects that reduce dead product and collection URLs.
The problem
Sold-out products can waste shopper attention, weaken collection pages, and create dead ends. Deleted products and collections can also create 404s when old URLs are still linked from search results, emails, ads, or other websites.
Power Tools includes tools for hiding sold-out products, moving unavailable products down in collections, and managing product or collection deletion with redirects.
When Power Tools is a good fit
Use Smart Delete and the sold-out product tools when you want unavailable products handled consistently. The goal is to keep collection pages focused on products shoppers can buy while protecting users and search engines from avoidable broken URLs.
Compared with Shopify availability filters
Shopify availability filters help shoppers narrow a collection after they land on it. Power Tools is a fit when sold-out products should be handled automatically: hidden from sale channels, moved lower in collections, unhidden when inventory returns, or redirected when products and collections are removed.
Useful workflows
- Hide products that cannot be sold.
- Move sold-out products to the end of manually or randomly sorted collections.
- Hide before deleting so there is time to reverse mistakes.
- Create redirects when products or collections are removed.
- Keep collection and filter pages cleaner for shoppers.
Read the Smart Delete overview and Hide Sold Out overview for more detail.
Install
Smart Delete is available through Power Tools on the Shopify App Store: install Smart Delete.
Questions merchants ask
Can Power Tools hide products that cannot be sold?
Yes. Power Tools can hide sold-out products and help manage redirects for deleted products or collections.
Does Smart Delete help with 404s?
Yes. Smart Delete is designed to hide first and redirect deleted products or collections so shoppers and search engines do not land on avoidable 404 pages.