Setting the permanent activation of a product or its variants

When using this option, the product or its variants remains active at all times, regardless of planned schedules.

There are several rules regarding the activation and deactivation a product and its variants.

The product must be active to activate their variants.
When activating a variant and its base product is deactivated, the base product is automatically activated.
The product can be active and its variants inactive. Although, none of variants will appear on the website or in the Order Management application .
When a product is deactivated and published, all its variants are also deactivated.
When a product is activated and published, all its variants remain inactive unless you activate them individually.
When a product is scheduled for activation, all its variants remain inactive unless you activate them individually.
When the option Allow variant level override is cleared, variants cannot be activated if deactivated, deactivated if activated or scheduled.

Activating a product permanently

1. Click product details.
2. Click scheduling activation icon.
3. Check Set activation permanently.
4. Click Apply.
5. Click Save.

Figure 1 - Setting the activation permanently for a product

6. Publish the product following your internal publication workflow.

Setting a variant permanently

1. Open product details.
2. Click Variants tab.
3. Click variant details.
4. Click scheduling activation icon.
5. Check Set activation permanently.
6. Click Apply.
7. Click Save.
8. Publish the product following your internal publication workflow.

REFERENCES

Scheduling the Publication of products
Activating product variants
Deactivating product variants
Scheduling the publication of variants