What to do with your discontinued products

[Peter222]

I keep asking this each month and I dont mean to double post.  BUT what happens when a customer from a direct or 3rd product see as a landing page . If you just leave it alone,    VS    deleting ?

TY much  !!!

[Sara_H · Accepted solution]

@Peter222 if you delete it, they will land on a page with text that says - 'this product was removed by the designer etc with various reasons and a page full of other products from other designers that your customer may want to buy instead

If you leave it - the product will still show with a message that it's just out of stock or it may have the message that it's been discontinued (with a page full of designs from other designers)

The choice is yours

[Peter222]

TY , Kind of looks like a catch 22.  

[De]

I've done both deleting the ones marked discontinued and sometimes not.  Twice items that were marked discontinued, (not marked out of stock), were made available again.  I believe the out of stock notice may have not been available at that time.  

[Peter222]

TY, I guess I will move them all to one category, rather than delete them. I just wish the the little bell saying you have 20 or so  more designs a day that "need optimising", which are actually just discontonued, would not do so. TY to all who responded.