When Creating A New Product - Have The Ability To 'Save Draft' & 'Preview'

11 votes

When creating a new product the only options we have at the moment are 'Save & Close' & 'Save'.

It would be really useful to be able to 'Save for later' or Save draft', plus a 'Preview' option so that we can check how our products look before publishing them.

Being able to save items for future publication means that when we have spare moments, we can add a few products save them for later with a 'go live' date on them. I know we have the 'Hidden' feature, but by doing it this way, it would be automatic & we wouldn't have to check for items we want to publish.

This would help by drip feeding products to our Google & Bing feeds creating fresh content.

Not planned New Functionality Products Suggested by: Lynne (31 Jan, '19) • Upvoted: 10 Jun, '22 • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

10 Jun, '22
Dauwalders of Salisbury
Fantastic idea, wordpress and other blogs already have this feature for posts, however there is a workaround by clicking the radio button off to Display Product, and you can still preview the product as hidden on the back end of the site!
04 Dec, '23
Eve Bolan Admin
You can do the equivalent by scrolling to the top of the Add/Edit Product window, clicking Hide Product on the top right-hand side, and then clicking Save. This will hide the product from public view but it will remain visible on the back end until you are ready to put it live: https://support.ekm.com/support/solutions/articles/44001786653 :)