Product Statuses: How to Schedule a Product as Inactive and Active

Instant check-out products in Castiron now have three statuses: inactive, active, or scheduled.

An inactive product is one that is set-up in your Castiron admin, but is not available on your website to be purchased.

An active product is one that is set-up in your Castiron admin, but is available to your customers to purchase on your website.

And, new to Castiron, a scheduled product is one that will be available on your Castiron site within a specific date and time range that you set. This is particularly helpful when you are planning to launch a pre-sale, or to have products expire at a set date and time to help you plan and manage your inventory or upcoming event. With scheduling products, you can easily add products in bulk to your store at a time that works for you, knowing that they'll be live and active on your website at the desired date. You also won't have to panic and try to remember to mark a product as "inactive" when a pre-sale is over— the product will just be inactive at the date you set!

To manage your products and product types, login to Castiron and go to "Products" on the left-hand side of your admin and navigation panel under "Online Ordering".

Click on any product to manage its status. Or, begin by creating a new product.

Go to "Availability" on the right-hand side and select the drop-down box under "Status". This is where you can mark a product as "Active", "Inactive", or "Scheduled".

To schedule your product, select "Scheduled". Next, use the date-selector to choose a Start Date, Start Time, End Date, and End Time.

If the current date is within your selected date range, the "Visibility" will be "Visible" and your product will be available on your website for purchase.

If your product's start date is in the future, or if your product's expiration date is in the past, your product's Visibility will be "Not Visible."

If you ever need to manually disrupt a product's schedule, you can easily do so by simply switching the product's Status to "inactive" manually.

Lastly, you can always preview a products' status under your "products" tab. This tab will show you what products are active, inactive, or scheduled.