# Archive Defunct Products **URL:** \ **Category:** HubSpot Ideas\ **Tags:** products-line-items\ **Created:** [January 12, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094 "2021-01-12T19:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AlanR](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/alanr/32/35608_2.png) [@AlanR](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AlanR)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/1 "2021-01-12T19:53:37Z")
We have a requirement to archive products that have become defunct. Deleting them would impact historic dealfow reporting and is not a practical solution, so archiving products within the ‘products & quotes’ would be useful so that they don’t display when someone is searching for a live product. We have created an ‘Archive’ folder within products & quotes but the items within that folder are visible in search, meaning some team members often - unwittingly - select an archived product item. We believe this would be a useful feature for other companies too. ---
**Author:** ![amiller\_ism](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/amiller_ism/32/43030_2.png) [@amiller\_ism](https://community.hubspot.com/u/amiller_ism)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/2 "2021-08-11T19:16:19Z")
Agree- don’t want to lose the history, but we also have products that are end-of-lifed as well and not just defunct. Archiving would give us the opportunity to maintain the historical info for reporting, but clean up all of the “noise” and opportunity for error that we currently have to deal with because we can’t remove these products. ---
**Author:** ![LRobinson9](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/lrobinson9/32/78108_2.png) [@LRobinson9](https://community.hubspot.com/u/LRobinson9)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/3 "2021-08-12T07:00:24Z")
Completely agree and looking for the same thing. The functionality is there to organise products in folders and you can select line items from these folders but only when you edit a deal and add a line item at that point. It is not available when you create a deal in the first instance so is there not a way to enable at least the folder functionality at the point of creating new deals as a work around until the archive function is available? ---
**Author:** ![THolowchak](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tholowchak/32/44503_2.png) [@THolowchak](https://community.hubspot.com/u/THolowchak)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/4 "2021-08-20T16:29:19Z")
100% agree- we are facing the exact same issue. thx - we need to archive old products so that they cannot be used again without impacting the old deals. Deleting them is not a viable option at all. ---
**Author:** ![JaWas1](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jawas1/32/77566_2.png) [@JaWas1](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JaWas1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/5 "2021-10-27T13:13:44Z")
Seconded! Facing exactly the same issue you described. ---
**Author:** ![mweber82](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/mweber82/32/56016_2.png) [@mweber82](https://community.hubspot.com/u/mweber82)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/6 "2022-03-04T21:03:28Z")
Following, we’d love to see archived products and/or better use of the folder functionality when creating Quotes/Deals. ---
**Author:** ![sarahkindred](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/sarahkindred/32/48852_2.png) [@sarahkindred](https://community.hubspot.com/u/sarahkindred)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/7 "2022-03-18T05:04:06Z")
completely agree, it is so ineffective that we don’t have this functionality ---
**Author:** ![JSchmitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@JSchmitz](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JSchmitz)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/8 "2022-04-20T19:03:04Z")
Agree. We would also like to sort product folders. ---
**Author:** ![BFuller](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/bfuller/32/34830_2.png) [@BFuller](https://community.hubspot.com/u/BFuller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/9 "2022-06-02T16:59:36Z")
I agree with this. We currently can’t hide/archive products and we can’t delete products if we need them fro reportnig. This makes it a roadblock when we want to change our products and our teams still ave full access to the old. ---
**Author:** ![JSchmitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@JSchmitz](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JSchmitz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/10 "2022-06-02T18:07:38Z")
Agree, we have a major issue with sales team using old products in quotes. We need to keep them for reporting as well so we cannot delete. ---
**Author:** ![spacheco](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/spacheco/32/38114_2.png) [@spacheco](https://community.hubspot.com/u/spacheco)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/11 "2022-08-16T16:50:18Z")
Agree with this. We do the same and create an archive folder but they still display on the list. Would like the option to exclude them from the view and export. ---
**Author:** ![SO18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SO18](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SO18)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/12 "2022-08-18T08:36:04Z")
Hey, We would like to keep our old products in object to not loose the history, so we doesn’t want to delete them but we doesn’t want to see them when we are editing quotes. **Actualy, we would like to have the posibility to hide old products and to be able to see them only in settings - products.** Ali from the support find that is a good idea ! What are you thinking about ? ---
**Author:** ![Maximew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Maximew](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Maximew)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/13 "2022-08-18T09:23:01Z")
I was wondering the same thing ! Thanks SO18. ---
**Author:** ![SGarring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@SGarring](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SGarring)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/14 "2022-11-18T03:19:30Z")
It would be really helpful to be able to archive things that get to be out of date especially Products! ---
**Author:** ![ACarrascoRP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@ACarrascoRP](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ACarrascoRP)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/15 "2023-01-03T20:48:39Z")
This feature would be very helpful to product management. ---
**Author:** ![KDailey8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@KDailey8](https://community.hubspot.com/u/KDailey8)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/16 "2023-02-08T19:29:34Z")
Yes please add archive feature to products ---
**Author:** ![AKastero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@AKastero](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AKastero)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 7:42am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/17 "2023-04-06T07:42:36Z")
Hello Dears, Do you find any way to do that? Let’s know the solution, please. ---
**Author:** ![AKastero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@AKastero](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AKastero)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 7:58am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/18 "2023-04-10T07:58:23Z")
Hello Dears, We need this feature, as you can’t delete and lose the history and can’t archive now. Many CRMs have this functionality, especially if they have the product-level option to make this product Active/Not active. I hop that the HubSpot product team will have a plan to fix this as it’s very important. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![MichelleWeaver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@MichelleWeaver](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MichelleWeaver)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/19 "2023-06-30T03:06:51Z")
Agreed. Super important. Kind of crippling without it… ---
**Author:** ![federicoaggio](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/federicoaggio/32/18239_2.png) [@federicoaggio](https://community.hubspot.com/u/federicoaggio)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094/20 "2024-01-03T09:12:14Z")
Agree! [Next page](https://community.hubspot.com/t/archive-defunct-products/30094.md?page=2)