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How do I exclude products from Stock Monitor?
In Settings, then Stock Tracking, use the Exclude products card to leave out whole product types, tags or vendors, or individual products. Excluded products drop out of your figures, nightly record and daily reports.
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How do I leave products out of Stock Monitor?
- Open Stock Monitor in your Shopify admin and go to Settings, then Stock Tracking.
- Find the Exclude products card. Choose one or more products in any of the ways below.
- Select Save.
For a walk through the whole Stock Tracking screen, see Stock tracking settings explained.
Which ways can I exclude products?
- Product Types: search for a type and pick it. Every product of that type is excluded.
- Tags: search for a tag and pick it. A product is excluded if it has any one of the tags you pick.
- Vendors: search for a vendor and pick it. Every product from that vendor is excluded.
- Products: select Select Products and tick products one at a time in Shopify's picker. The card shows how many you have chosen, and Clear removes them all.
Each choice appears as a small tag that you can remove with its X. The lists of types, tags and vendors come from the products in your store.
What changes when a product is excluded?
Stock Monitor stops monitoring it.
- It is left out of the figures on the home page and the summary figures at the top of the Products page.
- It no longer appears in the Products list.
- Stock Monitor writes no new nightly record for it, and it is left out of the daily email report and the Slack report.
- It does not count as a monitored SKU on the Plans screen. See How are monitored SKUs counted and charged?
Records Stock Monitor already holds for the product are not deleted. If you stop excluding it, Stock Monitor starts recording it again from the next nightly record, and there are no records for the days in between. See How do I see a product's stock history? for what is kept.
The home page keeps a copy of your product list in your browser for up to an hour, so a product you have just excluded can still appear in the home page figures until then.
Exclusions do not apply to the low stock and out of stock notifications that are sent when stock changes. If you set a notification to All Products, an excluded product can still trigger it. To stop that, choose Selected Products for the notification and leave the product out.
Which products are left out without me excluding them?
Products that are not active, are not published, or have inventory tracking turned off on a variant are skipped automatically, and Stock Monitor does not tell you when that happens. The Select Products picker does not offer products that are inactive, unpublished or untracked on every variant. The reasons are listed in How is a product's stock status worked out?
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