How to Remove Online Sales Channels from Shopify

There are many reasons why you might want to remove an online sales channel. For one, recent changes in commissions or processing fees might make it unprofitable. Or there might be a membership fee that is costing too much when you don’t have many sales.

Alternatively, you might find that you’re spreading yourself too thin and not able to work with all the channels. You might feel that you’re better off servicing a limited number of sales channels to a high standard than offering your services everywhere with basic level of service.

It also might be more challenging to manage all the sales channels with the stock levels. Though there are stock synchronization apps, like this one, you might have a sales channel which is slower to synchronize.

Finally, you might have too much competition on specific channels. For instance, some products can be sold by half a dozen or sometimes even more sellers on Amazon and eBay. You might not want to face that competition with the costs. Therefore, you withdraw your product.

The first step is to login to your Shopify store.

From the Shopify admin, click on the ‘Settings’ heading and then select the option that reads ‘Sales Channels’.

Now you will see a list of all the sales channels that you operate from your store. You can find the sales channels that you would like to remove and then click on the trash can symbol beside the channel.

After signaling that you would like to remove a sales channel, a dialogue box will appear and request information why you would like to remove the channel. If there is a reason you would like to share, then you can type out the reason. If not, you can skip this step.

To complete the process, you can then click on the ‘Remove’ option.