unpublish-products-that-have-been-out-of-stock-for-x-days

Unpublish products that have been out of stock for x days

Tags: Inventory, Products, Unpublish

This task watches for inventory updates. When a product's total inventory becomes 0 or less, the current time will be recorded for that product. Then, on an hourly basis, this task will unpublish any products with a recorded out-of-stock time of at least x days ago.

• View in the task library: tasks.mechanic.dev/unpublish-products-that-have-been-out-of-stock-for-x-days
• Task JSON, for direct import: task.json
• Preview task code: script.liquid

Default options

{
  "number_of_days_to_wait_before_unpublishing__number_required": null,
  "sales_channel_names__required_array": [
    "Online Store"
  ],
  "only_include_products_matching_this_search_query": null,
  "test_mode__boolean": true
}

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Subscriptions

shopify/inventory_levels/update
mechanic/scheduler/hourly
mechanic/user/trigger

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Documentation

This task watches for inventory updates. When a product's total inventory becomes 0 or less, the current time will be recorded for that product. Then, on an hourly basis, this task will unpublish any products with a recorded out-of-stock time of at least x days ago.

Notes:

• The first time the hourly scan runs, it may encounter products that were already out of stock, before this task was installed. For those products, the current time will be recorded as their out-of-stock time. This means that these products will wait for another x days before being automatically unpublished.
• If a product that this task unpublishes is manually published, and its total inventory is still 0 or less, this task will unpublish it again during its next hourly scan.
• This task includes a test mode. Enable it to have the task report what it would do, if test mode was disabled.

Installing this task

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