> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wisepim.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Change Visibility

> Bulk show or hide products on your storefront and connected channels. Take a batch off sale, or publish a new range, in one action.

Control whether products are shown to shoppers. **Change Visibility** flips the visibility of every product in your selection at once, so you can pull a discontinued range out of sight or publish a new collection the moment it is ready.

Hiding a product does not delete anything. The product, its content, and its history all stay in WISEPIM. It simply stops being shown on your storefront and the channels you export to.

## Change visibility in bulk

<Steps>
  <Step title="Select products">
    Check the products you want to update, or use filters and select all matching results.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open Bulk Edit and choose Change Visibility">
    Click **Bulk Edit**, then search for "Change Visibility".
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick visible or hidden">
    Choose whether the selected products should be shown or hidden.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Apply">
    Click **Apply** to update your selection.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What visibility affects

| Where                  | What changes                                                                                                     |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Your storefront**    | Hidden products are not shown to shoppers.                                                                       |
| **Connected channels** | Exports and feeds follow the visibility flag, so hidden products stop being published.                           |
| **WISEPIM**            | Nothing is removed. Hidden products stay in your catalog, keep their data, and remain searchable and filterable. |

## When to use it

* **Retiring a range.** Hide last season's products instead of deleting them, so you keep the data and can bring them back later.
* **Preparing a launch.** Import and enrich a new collection while it is hidden, then make the whole batch visible on launch day.
* **Pausing problem products.** Hide products that failed a quality check until the data is fixed, so nothing incomplete reaches a channel.

<Tip>
  Pair this with a filter. Filter for products with no image or an empty description, hide them in one pass, then unhide them after you enrich them. Your channels only ever see complete listings.
</Tip>

<Note>
  Visibility is a separate signal from review status. Review status says whether a product is *checked*; visibility says whether it is *shown*. Use [Update Status](/en/essentials/bulk-editing/update-status) for the first and this action for the second.
</Note>

## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Update Status" icon="circle-check" href="/en/essentials/bulk-editing/update-status">
    Set the review status of products to Ready, Pending, or Needs Review.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Set Field Value" icon="square-pen" href="/en/essentials/bulk-editing/set-field">
    Set any default product field to a specific value or formula.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Exporting products" icon="upload" href="/en/essentials/exporting-products">
    Push your catalog to connected platforms and files.
  </Card>

  <Card title="All bulk actions" icon="layers" href="/en/essentials/bulk-editing">
    Browse every bulk editing action by category.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>