Future publishing

Future publishing allows you to hide parts of your online store until a specific date and time. You can set up future publishing for products, collections, blog posts, and pages. Your online store publishes the content at the dates and times that you specify.

Note

Verify that the date and time in the Standards and formats section of your Store details settings page is set to your time zone so that your products publish at the correct time.

Set a publish date for a product

You can set a publish date for a product.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products.
2. Click a product name.
3. In the Product status section, do the following:
   1. Verify that the status is set to Active.
   2. In the Publishing section, click the calendar icon next to Online Store.
   3. Choose the date and time that you want the product to publish to your online store. The default time is the next :00 or :30 point in the day, but you can type in any valid hour and minute combination into the time field (for example: 1:23 p.m.).
4. Click Schedule publishing.
5. Click Save.

To view the scheduled publishing date and time, go to the product and then in the Publishing section, click Online Store. From here, you can also:

• Click the pencil icon to edit the scheduled date and time, and then click Save.
• Click the trash icon to delete the scheduled date and time, and then click Save.

Set a publish date for a collection

You can set a publish date for a collection.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products > Collections.
2. Click a collection name.
3. In the Publishing section, click the calendar icon next to Online Store.
4. Choose the date and time that you want the collection to publish to your online store. The default time is the next :00 or :30 point in the day, but you can type in any valid hour and minute combination into the time field (for example: 1:23 p.m.).
5. Click Schedule publishing.
6. Click Save.

To view the scheduled publishing date and time, go to the collection and then in the Publishing section, click Online Store. From here, you can also:

• Click the pencil icon to edit the scheduled date and time, and then click Save.
• Click the trash icon to delete the scheduled date and time, and then click Save.

Set a publish date for a blog post or page

You can set a publish date for a blog post or a page.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Sales Channels > Online Store.
2. Click either Blog posts or Pages.
3. In the Visibility section, click Set visibility date.
4. Choose the date and time that you want the item to publish to your online store. The default time is the next :00 or :30 point in the day, but you can type in any valid hour and minute combination into the time field (for example: 1:23 p.m.).
5. Click Save.

To view the scheduled publishing date and time, go to the blog post or page and then in the Visibility section, check the date and time listed next to Hidden. From here, you can also:

• Click Set visibility date to edit the scheduled date and time, and then click Save.
• Click Set visibility date > Clear date... to delete the scheduled date and time, and then click Save.