Scheduling Publishing and Unpublishing Products

Once you have created your publish/unpublish schedule and given it a name, you can now set the initial action for the schedule:

If you select to publish products, the schedule will set your selected products to a status of active on the start date/time, irrespective of what the status of the product is when the schedule runs.

If you select to unpublish products, then the schedule will set the products to a status of draft by default. However, you have the option to set the products to a status of archived in the "Anything else" section further down:

You also have the option to set what unpublished state to set products to if you have a publish schedule with an end date/time - since the schedule will need to unpublish the products at the end of the schedule.

Sales Channel

You have the option to add/remove products from the online store sales channel by selecting the checkbox shown below:

Your shop may have several sales channels available such as Facebook Shop, Point of Sale and most likely - the Online Store Sales Channel, which is your main Shopify store.

If required, you can set the schedule to also publish the products to the online store sales channel on the publish date and unpublish them from the online store sales channel on the unpublish date.

Ignoring Products

You may wish to ignore products with certain states when publishing products. For example, if you have selected products by collection and that collection contains archived products, it might be a good idea to ignore archived products to make sure you don't unintentionally publish them again.

Select the products for your schedule.

Set the active dates for your schedule.

If required, set the repeating options for your schedule.

If required, set the tag options for your schedule.

If required, set your schedule to display a countdown timer.