PREFLIGHT CHECK
Check Shopify product CSV Status values and flag entries outside active, draft or archived before import.
🔒 Analysis runs in your browser; the file itself is not sent to BlueprintLab.
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This unofficial checker covers only rules that can be verified in the browser. Live account settings, remote server state and later service-side validation remain authoritative.
In Shopify product CSV, omitting the Status column defaults the imported status to `active`. If the Status column is present, the relevant rows need a value. This checker therefore treats a missing column as a warning and a present-but-blank value as an error.
Valid product-CSV values checked here are `active`, `draft`, and `archived`.
Fix an ERROR by supplying a valid Status value or deliberately removing the column when that is the intended import behavior. A WARNING means this CSV has no Status column, so the checker cannot verify per-product state.
Shopify admin can show additional states such as Unlisted, but those are separate from the values documented for the product CSV Status field.
If you intended to import products as drafts but accidentally removed Status, the documented default can make them active. Keeping Status and leaving cells blank is a different situation.
Because product state affects storefront readiness, check this before a bulk import rather than after pricing and content work.
It does not verify sales-channel publication or the final state inside Shopify admin. It only validates the presence and values of the CSV Status column.
After import, verify a small batch in Shopify before applying the same file pattern at scale.