How to Hide Products and Categories in Magento 2

Let's imagine you need to have different products for wholesalers and retailers, or hide some products for retailers only. Or you want to add additional call-to-action before customers can view product details. Magento offers you some options to hide products or categories by disabling or putting them out of stock.

The Catalog Permissions extension improves this Magento 2 functionality and helps to hide categories and products separately, globally, or per store view. The 4 most popular use cases are highlighted below.

Redirect Products or Categories for Retailers

It’s hardly a secret that buying wholesale products in bulk gives you tiered reductions on your purchases along with other benefits. But retail business includes the comparatively higher prices as well as tough advertising campaigns to grab the attention of customers. The extension allows to limit retailers’ activity and call them for additional actions.

Redirect the particular products or categories to the registration form for wholesalers or a separate page with your promotion details. After retailers choose products, they will be redirected to the specific URL set by admin. Let’s check out the detailed settings within the current example.

Complete the following steps to redirect all products in the “Wholesale” category:

• Select “Redirect for All Products in Category” from the available list of modes.
• Enter the URL linked to the wholesale registration form.
• Choose the “Retailer” customer groups where the chosen mode is to be applied to.
• Select the time limitation or skip it to make the settings enabled for an unlimited period of time.
• Click button “Save” to save the settings.

Hide the VIP Products

Imagine that you want to offer exclusive online products for a particular customer group only, while make them hidden for the rest of customers. The plugin helps to hide all products within one category or apply the hiding mode per product. Let’s configure the second case and make particular products available for the VIP clients only.

Complete the following steps to hide the current product:

• Select “Hide Product Completely” from the available list of modes.
• Choose customer groups where the chosen mode is to be applied to.
• Set the time limitation or skip it to make the settings enabled for an unlimited period of time.
• Click button “Save” to save the settings.

Create the Additional Call-to-Action

Email newsletters can be a good tool to maintain regular contacts with customers, keep them updated with the latest news and products, or offer effective and useful tips. The extension helps to extend the newsletters’ base by stimulating customers to login or register. Redirect the “Popular” products to the registration form to make these products available only after logging in or registration.

Complete the following steps to redirect certain products to the registration form:

• Select “Redirect to a Specific URL” from the available list of modes.
• Enter the direct URL where the chosen customer group will be redirected.
• Choose the “NOT LOGGED IN” customer group where the chosen mode is to be applied to.
• Set the time limitation or skip it to make the settings enabled for an unlimited period of time.
• Click button “Save” to save the settings.

Hide the Out-Of-Season Products

If you are running a store offering common products along with the seasonal ones that are available only during certain periods of the year, you might face the need to disable or hide out-of-season products. Now you can easily hide them within a particular period of time without disabling them. Let’s make the out-of-season products hidden for all customers.

Complete the following steps:

• Select “Hide Category and All Products in It” from the available list of modes.
• Choose all customer group where the chosen mode is to be applied to.
• Set the time limitation when the products will be back in season.
• Click button “Save” to save the settings.

Check out our Video Tutorial for the Catalog Permissions extension for Magento 2.