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Managing Products

Last updated 2 November 2026

Insites allows you to manage e-commerce products and perform actions such as adding, updating, and deleting these products on the platform. This article consists of the following main sections:

  • Updating a product
  • Enabling and disabling products
  • Adding Metadata, Open Graph, and Schema to a product page
  • Archiving and restoring products
  • Viewing the event stream of a product
  • Deleting products

Updating a product

To update an existing product:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Find the product you want to update and select its Edit row action link.
  4. Make your changes.
  5. Select SAVE.

Enabling and disabling products

Insites lets you enable or disable products.

This feature can be useful for seasonal items or items whose availability can vary throughout the year. Refer to the following subsections for details:

  • Disabling products
  • Enabling products

Disabling products

To disable products:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Choose the products you want to disable using their checkboxes. Ticking the topmost checkbox selects all products.
  4. Select Bulk Actions , then select Disable.
  5. Select APPLY.
  6. Finalize disabling the product on the confirmation modal.

Note

You may disable individual products using their Disable row action links.

Enabling products

To enable a product:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Choose the products you want to enable using their checkboxes. Ticking the topmost checkbox selects all products displayed on the page.
  4. Select Bulk Actions , then select Enable.
  5. Select APPLY.
  6. Finalize enabling the products on the confirmation modal.

Note

You may enable individual products using their Enable row action links.

Implementing SEO and social metadata

Follow these steps to apply Metadata, Open Graph, or Schema configurations to a specific product page using Liquid snippets.

Step 1: Retrieve the product Liquid snippet

Find the product whose SEO configurations you want to modify:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Find the product you want to modify and select its Edit row action link.
  4. Navigate to the product's 'Metadata,' 'Open Graph,' or 'Schema' tab depending on the configuration you are implementing.
  5. Scroll to the 'Liquid Snippet' section at the bottom of the active tab.
  6. Select the snippet to copy the code to your clipboard.

Step 2: Apply configurations to the page

  1. Navigate to CMS from the main menu.
  2. Select Pages.
  3. Find the page you want to modify and select its Edit row action link.
  4. Navigate to the 'Content' tab.
  5. Paste the copied snippet within the <head> section of the pages' HTML.
  6. Select SAVE.

Note

Placing these snippets in the <head> ensures that search engine crawlers and social media bots can detect your metadata immediately upon landing on the page.

Archiving and restoring products

Archiving a product removes it from view and prevents it from cluttering your table. Archived products can be restored later if needed. The following sections discuss this in more detail.

  • Archiving products
  • Restoring products

Archiving products

To archive products:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Choose the products you want to archive using their checkboxes. Ticking the topmost checkbox selects all products displayed on the page.
  4. Select Bulk Actions , then select Archive.
  5. Select APPLY.
  6. Finalize your action on the confirmation modal.

Note

You may archive individual products using their Archive row action links.

Restoring products

To restore products:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Choose the products you want to enable using their checkboxes. Ticking the topmost checkbox selects all products displayed on the page.
  4. Select Bulk Actions , then select Enable.
  5. Select APPLY.
  6. Finalize restoring the products on the confirmation modal.

Note

You may restore individual products using their Restore row action links.

Viewing the event stream of a product

The event stream contains valuable information for monitoring events on a product, including actions like editing or creating the product. It offers a detailed product lifecycle record, enabling users to track changes over time and make well-informed decisions during debugging or system updates. To access and review a product's event stream:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Find the product whose event stream you want to view and select its Edit row action link.
  4. Navigate to the 'Event Stream' tab.
  5. Find the particular event whose details you want to view and select VIEW DETAILS. This view enables you to examine previous data stored in the product and compare it with its current data.

Deleting products

Deleting a product removes it from the system permanently. You can delete products using one of two ways:

  • Deleting a single product
  • Deleting multiple products

Deleting a single product

To delete a single product:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Find the product you want to delete and select its Delete row action link.
  4. Finalize the deletion of the product using the confirmation modal.

Deleting multiple products

To delete multiple products:

  1. Navigate to Ecommerce from the main menu.
  2. Select Products.
  3. Choose the products you want to delete using their checkboxes. Ticking the topmost checkbox selects all products.
  4. Select Bulk Actions, and choose Delete.
  5. Select APPLY.
  6. Finalize product deletion on the confirmation modal.

Note

You may delete individual products using their Delete row action links.