Why Hide Out Of Stock Variants?

That one thing, no merchant wants is to irritate their customers and lose them for good, just because options/variants of some products are sold out but still visible on product pages by default. The customer gets to know if the variant option is sold out or in stock only after they click on the product variant that they would like to purchase.

Example: Let’s say you’re a merchant selling a T-shirt in 10 different colors. A customer lands on the product page and chooses the blue color but guess what? It is sold out!? The customer then decides to pick a green one...but sadly that one is sold out too!!?? Frustrating, right? You might lose the customer forever. It would have been better if the sold-out variants could be seen at a glance or could be hidden. Camouflage handles this for you :)

A stock-out situation is problematic to both suppliers and retailers for several reasons. Not only does the out-of-stock problem have an adverse effect on profits, but it also causes significant customer dissatisfaction. In fact, out-of-stock (OOS) hurts the customer's shopping experience.

Popular use cases

• When you want to hide out-of-stock variants so that your customers can focus on what is currently offered by your Store
• When you want to hide "Unavailable" variants but keep out-of-stock variants visible
• When you don't want to sell a few variants (no matter what the current inventories are)
• When you dropship but are not sure if the supplier will be able to fulfil item when the inventory level goes below quantity X
• When you are running regular sales or special sales like Black Friday / Cyber Monday (BFCM) sales and want to hide variants as soon as they are sold

Works well with Back in stock alert and product options / variant options apps

Camouflage doesn't block back-in-stock alerts and pre-order apps like Klaviyo, Notify Me! Back in Stock Alert, Back in Stock & Restock Alerts, Back In Stock: Customer Alerts, Back In Stock + Restock Alerts, Back in Stock ‑ Out of Stock, PreOrder Globo & Back in Stock, Swym Back in Stock Alerts etc

Features

• Hide / Disable / strike-through out-of-stock variants and unavailable variant options
• Hide / Disable /strike-through out-of-stock variants based on certain inventory level
• Exclude products based on tags
• Handpick variants to hide even when they are in stock
• Handpick variants to show even when they are sold out
• Works with all free Shopify themes and various paid themes as well
• Works with all 3 product options, Examples of product options: Color/Size/Material