Include / exclude

Include and exclude rules decide which products go in a channel's feed. You set them on the channel's Include / exclude tab. With no rules, every product is included.

Add a rule

1. Click Add rule.
2. Choose Exclude or Include only.
3. Add one or more conditions after "products if". See Conditions.
4. Click Save changes.

Conditions can use source fields, global store fields and channel fields. Channel fields hold the final feed values, so you can, e.g., exclude products where the channel's price is empty.

How several rules work together

A product is removed if any rule removes it. So with several rules, a product stays in the feed only when it passes every Include only rule and matches no Exclude rule.

To turn a rule off without deleting it, switch off Enabled. A rule with no conditions does nothing.

See what's removed

The top of the tab shows how many products are included, e.g. "1,180 of 1,240 products included", and each rule shows how many products it removes. The numbers update as you edit, before you save. Click Why excluded to see the reasons and a sample of removed products.

If every product is removed, Feed review shows "All products are excluded".

Exclude associated variants

Some shops prefer to drop a whole product when most of its sizes or colours are sold out. Exclude associated variants does that.

Fill in the sentence "Exclude all variants of a product when ...% or more of its variants are out of stock", and choose:

• Variant group field, the channel field that's the same for all variants of a product, usually item_group_id,
• Availability field, the channel field that says whether a variant is in stock, usually availability. A variant counts as out of stock when this field contains the word "out", e.g. out of stock or out_of_stock.

For example, with 50%, a T-shirt in sizes S, M, L and XL:

Feedsmith counts only the variants still in the feed after your include and exclude rules.

Order of steps

Feedsmith builds a channel in this order:

1. global store fields,
2. channel field mapping,
3. categories,
4. variant filters, then merging variants (if turned on),
5. include and exclude rules,
6. exclude associated variants.

So include and exclude rules see the merged products, not the separate variants.