Announcing changes to how the Import API publishes Products

On 1 August 2024*, we will change the behavior of the publish field when importing Product data. The following changes will reduce the complexity of importing Product data, and will prevent unintended publishing:

• You can only use the publish field to publish or unpublish Products when importing Products or Product drafts.
• When importing Embedded Prices, Product Variants, or [Product Variant Patches]/../api/import-export/product-variant-patch):
  • If a Product is currently unpublished, then it will not be published even if publish is true.
  • The Product's current projection will not be replaced by the staged projection.