- Short answer
- Yes: set the product to Unlisted; it leaves Shopify's collections and search but stays reachable by its direct URL.
- Where to set it
- The product's status field: Active, Draft or Unlisted.
- Search engines
- Unlisted adds noindex and nofollow and removes the product from the XML sitemap.
- Third-party apps
- Search or recommendation apps not integrated with Unlisted might still show it.
- Redirecting /collections/all
- Not possible: it's a fixed Shopify path.
What does Unlisted change for a product?
You set a product's status — Active, Draft or Unlisted — on its product details page.
An unlisted product keeps a storefront page that opens only with its direct URL. It doesn't show up in collections — and /collections/all is the page that lists your visible products. Unlisted also:
- keeps it out of search and product recommendations;
- adds
noindexandnofollowtags and removes it from your XML sitemap; - blocks publishing it to any third-party sales channel;
- doesn't bind third-party search or recommendation apps that aren't integrated with the status — they might still display it.
Customers can still add it to the cart from the direct URL, unless you customize your unlisted product pages to prevent it.
What if the product should leave the storefront entirely?
To take a product off the storefront:
- Draft makes it unavailable to customers on sales channels and apps. Draft, or removal from all sales channels, returns a 404 and makes the URL eligible for a redirect.
- Archive hides it from your storefront; it stays in its collections, unseen by customers.
- Excluding it from a sales channel hides it from that channel — see where publishing is set.
Can a collection titled All change the catalog page?
Yes for out-of-stock products: the catalog page article has you create a collection titled All, and its optional step adds the condition Inventory stock is greater than 0. The collection's handle under Search engine listing must always be /all. If the order looks off — the page sorts alphabetically by default — see why a storefront shows a different order.
Hiding the collection won't hide its products: a collection's availability doesn't change theirs.
/collections/all itself can't be redirected: URL redirects don't accept fixed Shopify paths, and they work only from broken URLs.
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