Auto publish or hide and archive products

This option is available on Advanced Settings (Step 4) of Update Product feed only. When the published field is mapped, auto publish and hide will be disable. To enable it, please remove the Published field mapping. 

For this feature, Track quantity needs to be enabled. You can find this option in Stock Sync too, it is under the Quantity setting. 

1. Auto Publish Products 

It only publishes the product for the variant quantity that is more than zero only.

(a) Do not apply: Don't make any changes

For example,
 
If don't want to make any changes to publish the products you can select this as no changes.

(b) All products in store: Auto publish all products in store if any one of the variants has a quantity of more than zero.

For example,

In your store having 50 products that have more than zero quantity, it will publish all the 50 products in your store.

(c) Matching products within a feed file: Auto publish all matching products within the feed file but the variant quantity should be more than zero

For example, 

If the feed that scans the quantity is more than zero, it will auto publish all the products. If the supplier feeds updated 10 products with more than zero quantity, it will publish those 10 products.

2. Auto hide product for all sales channels - It only hides the product for the variant quantity is zero and the continued selling out of stock should be disabled. 

The products that you would like to hide should disable this option in Shopify admin. Can refer to this article  Continue selling when out of stock to know more. 

(a) Do not apply: Don't make any changes

For example,

If you don't want to make any changes to hide the products you can select this as no changes.

(b) All products in store: Auto hide all products in store if any one of the variants has zero quantity or less than zero. Continue selling when out of stock should be disabled. 

For example, 

In your store has 50 products that have zero quantity and continue selling out of stock is disabled, it will hide all the 50 products in your store. 

(c) Matching products within a feed file: Auto hide all matching products within the feed file but the variant quantity is zero. 

For example, 

If the feed that scans the quantity is zero or less than that, it will hide all the products. If the supplier feeds updated 10 products with zero quantity, it will hide those 10 products.

This option is actually for only hiding the products from the online store instead of hiding products from all sales channels. 

For example,

One of your products is in all sales channels like Facebook, Instagram, and so on. If you want to hide only in the online store so you just need to enable this option after selecting Auto hide product for all sales channels.