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Getting Started


After creating and adding a product to your store's online shop, there may come times when certain changes or edits need to take place. This page will focus on the different means you can take to adjust and alter previously made products. For information on how to create and add new products or duplicate old products, check out How to Add Products.


When considering updating product details, there are several different categories:

  • Editing Product Details
  • Making Products Available Across Sales Channels
  • Adding or Removing Tags
  • Editing a Search Engine Listing Preview
  • Archiving Products
  • Deleting Products


Finding a Product

In order to begin with updating a product, you must first find and open the product you ware wanting to edit. In order to do so, follow these steps:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited
  3. Enter the new details


Editing Product Details

After your product has been created, the product's details can be changed at any time. This includes the descriptions, prices, and anything that may need to be changed. Please be aware, however, that any changes made to these products will take place immediately. These changes can also affect how products are reported and grouped in your store's reports. For more information on how these changes affect product details and product reports, check out Changes to Product Details.


Editing product details is simple:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited
  3. Enter the new details


Making Products Available Across Sales Channels

Sales Channels, generally speaking, are the paths your products take to get to your customers. These channels are wholly customizable through Shopify. This allows for your business to control where products are being sold and to control when and how they are sold. This allows for products to be specifically removed from certain Sales Channels. This is especially nice if you have seasonal or exclusive items that your business is seeking to sale. Other uses and examples include:

  • Seasonal products with time-sensitive limited displays
  • Products currently out of stock, but expecting a restock
  • Products your business doesn't currently wish to sell, but may sell again in the future
  • Online or in-store exclusive products


In order to view or change a product's Sales Channels, simply:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited
  3. Check the Product Status section for product availability information
  4. Here product status can be adjusted between Active and Draft
  5. Select Manage under Sales Channels and Apps for more options
  6. Click Done
  7. Click Save


Please note that BinderPOS does not look at the Shopify status and these items will appear in the POS and sync with integrations even if they are in draft status


Adding or Removing Tags

Tags serve as keywords that allow for products to be searched for and found more easily. These help customers find products in online stores more easily and aid stores in quickly grouping products into collections based on their tags. Each product can be assigned up to 250 tags.


Adding Tags

In order to add tags to a product, follow these steps:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited or select Add Product to create a new product
  3. Find the Product Organization section
  4. From the Product Organization section, select or enter tags for the product
  5. Click Save


Tags should be separated by commas. They can hold up to 255 characters each


Removing Tags

In order to remove tags from a product, follow these steps:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited
  3. Find the Product Organization section
  4. From the Product Organization section, click the  X  besides the tag you want to remove
  5. Click Save


Editing a Search Engine Listing Preview

From a product's detail page, your store has the ability to alter how specific products appear as listings previews in search engine results. The following lists out how to begin with these customizations:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited
  3. Find the Search Engine Listing section
  4. From the Search Engine Listing section, select Edit
  5. Edit and customize the title, description, and URL to fit your store's wants
  6. Click Save


For more information about optimizing search engine results and listings, check out Search Engine Optimization.


Archiving Products

If your store is seeking to hide a product from customer's sight, but avoid outright deleting the product, you can Archive this product. Archiving can be done to single products or to a group of products through a bulk action. When archived, a product will be moved to the archived tab of the Products page. In order to begin this process, follow these steps:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited
  3. Scroll the the bottom of the page and select Archive Product
  4. Click Archive Product again


If you want to Unarchive a product, follow these steps:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. Select the Archived tab
  3. Find and select the product being unarchived
  4. Select Unarchive Product


Deleting Products

In order to permanently remove a product from your Shopify store, you can Delete the product. This action is irreversible and cannot be undone. Individual products can be deleted, while groups of products can be deleted through use of a bulk action. Remember that if the goal is simply to hide the products for the time being, Archiving products is also possible. In order to delete a product, follow these steps:

  1. From your store's MyShopify page, select Products
  2. From the Products page, search for and select the product being edited
  3. Scroll the the bottom of the page and select Delete Product
  4. Click Delete Product again