Hide a Destination URL Without Losing It: Introducing Per-Destination Visibility Controls
Affilio now lets you hide a destination URL without deleting it. Flip a toggle, and the link disappears from your storefront — but stays saved and ready to re-enable with one click.
Every affiliate marketer has hit the same wall: a product goes out of stock, a promotional deal expires, or a retailer temporarily pulls a listing. Your options up to now were either leave a broken or irrelevant link live on your storefront, or delete it and rebuild it from scratch when the deal comes back. Neither is good.
Affilio now gives you a third option — hide a destination URL without deleting it.
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What "Per-Destination Visibility" Actually Means
A product in Affilio can have multiple destination URLs — different retailers, different affiliate programs, different regions. With this update, each of those destinations now carries an independent visible/hidden toggle.
When you flip a destination to hidden:
- It disappears immediately from your public storefront
- It stays saved in your product editor, toggle off, ready to re-enable
- Every other destination on that product continues working normally
- Your product page itself stays live — nothing breaks for your audience
When you flip it back on, it's live again. No re-entering URLs, no rebuilding affiliate parameters, no reconfiguring deep link settings.
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Three Scenarios Where This Matters
1. A retailer runs out of stock
You're promoting a tech product across Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. Walmart sells out. Instead of leaving a dead-end link or sending visitors to a "currently unavailable" page, you hide the Walmart destination. Amazon and Best Buy keep serving your audience. When Walmart restocks, you re-enable with one click.
2. A limited-time promotion ends
You added a destination URL for a Black Friday deal that included a special discount code embedded in the affiliate link. The sale ends. You hide that URL so visitors aren't landing on a full-price page with an expired promo parameter — while keeping your evergreen destinations active.
3. An affiliate program pauses
Some affiliate programs temporarily suspend tracking during platform migrations or audits. Rather than deleting the URL and losing the configuration, hide it for the duration. When the program comes back online, toggle it visible.
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How It Works in the Editor
Inside any product's edit view, the Selected URLs list now shows a toggle switch next to each destination alongside the existing remove button.
- Switch on → destination is visible to your audience
- Switch off → destination is hidden; the row dims and shows a Hidden badge so you can see its status at a glance
- The remove button still works independently — hiding and deleting remain separate actions
Changes take effect immediately. No save-and-publish step, no cache to wait on.
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What Your Audience Sees (And Doesn't)
Hidden destinations are filtered at the public API level. When someone visits your storefront product page, the response only includes visible destination URLs. The product page itself renders normally — if you have two visible destinations and one hidden, your visitors see two affiliate links, not a gap or an error.
This filtering happens server-side, so there's no flash of content or client-side hiding. The hidden URL simply isn't in the response.
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Available on Every Plan
Visibility controls are available on Free, Boost, and Professional plans — no upgrade required to access this feature.
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A Note on Existing Products
If you've been using Affilio before this release, your existing destination URLs have been automatically migrated. Every URL you had attached to a product has been carried over with visible = true by default — nothing has been hidden without your input, and no links have been removed. Your storefronts continue working exactly as before.
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Getting Started
Open any product in your project, scroll to the Selected URLs section, and you'll see the toggle switches already in place. No setup required.
If you run into any questions about managing destinations across products at scale, the [Affilio docs](#) cover the full product URL model — including how visibility interacts with deep link routing and click tracking.
Hidden doesn't mean gone. Now your link setup can reflect reality without the cleanup overhead.