Yes, you can! This is especially useful if you’d like to review or complete product details (like descriptions, prices, or images) before making them visible to customers.
How to enable this behavior
Enable the setting
Go to the Products tab in your connection configuration and activate the checkbox:
Mark as Inactive on First Export:
Perform the initial export
Products will be exported to your e-commerce store as draft or inactive (depending on the connector). This gives you time to finalize listings before they go live.
Note: This applies only to the first export for each product. If a product is marked as active in Odoo, it will be set as active in your store during future syncs.
Important notes
After the first export, future exports will update the product’s status based on its current state in Odoo.
This feature only applies to new products – those without an existing external ID (which are not mapped with products in your store).
To make it work, ensure that the Status or Active field mapping (depending on the connector) is enabled in your product field mappings:
How product status is determined?
Here’s how this logic is applied per platform during export from Odoo to different e-commerce systems:
Connector | Behaviour |
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Shopify |
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Magento 2 |
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WooCommerce |
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PrestaShop |
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