Auto publish or hide and archive products

This option is available on Advanced Settings (Step 4) of Update Product feed only. When the published field is mapped, auto publish and hide will be disable. To enable it, please remove the Published field mapping. 

For this feature, Track quantity needs to be enabled. You can find this option in Stock Sync too, it is under the Quantity setting. 

1. Auto Publish Products 

It only publishes the product for the variant quantity more than zero.

(a) Do not apply: Don't make any changes

For example,
 
If don't want to make any changes to publish the products you can select this as no changes.

(b) All filtered products in store: Auto publishes all products in store if any one of the variants has a quantity of more than zero.

For example,

In your store having 50 products that have more than zero quantity, it will publish all the 50 products in your store.

(c) Matching products within a feed file: Auto publish all matching products within the feed file, but the variant quantity should be more than zero

For example, 

If the feed that scans the quantity is more than zero, it will auto publish all the products. If the supplier feeds updated 10 products with more than zero quantity, it will publish those 10 products.

2. Auto archive or unpublish products

It archives the product by default and unpublish when disabling unarchive options, when all variant quantities are zero in all locations, and the continued selling out of stock is disabled. 

The products you want to archive should disable this option in Shopify admin. Refer to this article Continue selling when out of stock to know more. 

(a) Do not apply: Don't make any changes

For example,

If you don't want to make any changes to archive the products you can select this as no changes.

(b) All products in store: Auto archive or unpublish all products in store if any one of the variants has zero quantity or less than zero included in all locations. Continue selling when out of stock should be disabled. 

For example, 

In your store has 50 products that have zero quantity and continue selling out of stock is disabled, by default it will archive all the 50 products in your store. 

(c) Matching products within a feed file: Auto archive all matching products within the feed file but the variant quantity is zero. 

For example, 

If the feed that scans the quantity is zero or less than that, it will archive all the products. If the supplier feeds updated 10 products with zero quantity, it will archive those 10 products. 

Disable this option to unpublish the products from the online store instead of from all sales channels. 

For example,

One of your products is in all sales channels like Facebook, Instagram, and so on. If you want to unplublish only in the online store so you just need to disable this option after selecting Auto unpublish product for online store.