It’s awesome when your products are getting sold out. But you also need to think if you should hide them from the store, and how to do so. Why hide sold-out items? It might be disturbing for customers to see products they can’t buy, especially if there are many of them and they’re cluttering most of the product catalog space. 

In some cases, you might want to leave sold-out products on your pages and set a badge that will allow visitors to subscribe to notifications about the item getting back on stock. But if you’re not planning to restock some products, or if your inventory levels are changing too quickly to deal with this kind of customer notifications, your choice should be hiding out-of-stock products or pushing them down to your collection pages. 

You can hide sold-out items with automated collections, using Shopify Flow workflows (if your store runs on Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus), or via an app. 

In this list, we’ve collected the best Shopify apps for hiding out-of-stock products. They will sync with your inventory and make hiding and unhiding a piece of cake.