Hidden products and hidden shipping methods give you a "deny-list" — a quick way to keep specific items or shipping tiers out of the customer-facing edit experience, without touching the rest of your Shopify store. Use them when your catalog is mostly fine, but a handful of products or shipping tiers shouldn't be editable.
Hidden products
Hidden products stops specific items from appearing in the Add products / Replace products picker customers use during an edit. Your storefront is unaffected — items are only hidden inside the Order Editing experience.
You can hide products in six different ways, and they can all be combined:
By specific product — pick individual products you don't want offered
By product name match — hide any product whose name contains a given word or phrase (for example, "Deluxe" or "Limited Edition")
By product tag — hide any product carrying tags you specify (for example,
clearance,sample,wholesale-only)By product type — hide entire product types (for example, "Gift Card" or "Subscription")
Hide all free products — one-click switch for anything with a $0 list price
Hide all gift cards — one-click switch for all products of type Gift Card
Anything matched by any of these rules simply doesn't appear when customers click Add products / Replace products.
Hidden shipping methods
This hides specific shipping method titles from the Change shipping method action (covered in Choosing Which Changes Customers Can Make). Customers still see all the shipping tiers you have — minus the ones you hide here.
Note: Shipping methods are matched by their title exactly as they appear in Shopify. If you rename a shipping method in Shopify, update the hidden list here to match — otherwise the hidden entry stops matching and the method reappears.
What's next
Automatic Shipping Cost Recalculation — what happens to shipping charges when customers change their cart or address
Curating Which Products Customers Can Add — the allow-list alternative to hidden products