I was asked this morning how to handle the situation when you no longer offer a product for sale – but want to retain it’s details.

The answer is fortunately simple. Add a custom boolean attribute to the catalog – such as IsAvailable. Set it to True for products that are available and False for products that are not. Then on the site, modify the catalog display code to filter products by this attribute.

Customers will only see products that are available and business users can see everything – including historical products.