A self-refreshing storefront: invisible cards retire, new products take their place

2026-09-11

A card that does not show up in Ozon search takes up space in your store but brings no orders. Every morning Commbot measures your store's cards, retires the invisible ones and opens stronger products from the queue in their place. Products that have sold even once are excluded.

When a new listing goes live, Ozon tests it in search for a while. Some cards are barely shown after that test: they stay in the store but bring no orders, using up your card quota and storefront space. Storefront renewal finds these cards from the data, retires them and opens new products in their place. In stores running with full automation it runs on its own every morning.

Daily search impressions of two products: one keeps rising, the other gets 5 or fewer in 10 days and is retired
The top product shows up in search and stays. The bottom one got 5 or fewer search impressions in 10 days on sale, so it is retired and a new product takes its place. Every product is protected for its first 14 days.

How it works

  1. New products get time: listings younger than 14 days are never cut; they first get their chance in search.
  2. The whole product is measured: Ozon does not spread impressions evenly across sizes, so the total search impressions of all the product's sizes count, not a single size.
  3. Completely invisible cards are swapped: a card older than 21 days that was on sale for all of the last 14 days with zero search impressions, has never sold and was not added to a cart in the last 30 days is swapped for a stronger candidate from the queue, if one is waiting (at most 10 a day).
  4. Barely visible products are retired: if a product was on sale on at least 8 of the last 10 days and got 5 or fewer search impressions in that time (at most 0.5 per day on sale), all its size cards are moved to the archive. Since October 14 this rule runs every morning in all stores with full automation.
  5. A new product takes the spot: the store is kept at its target number of sellable cards; with Automatic listing on, freed spots are filled with stronger products from the queue within your daily card quota.
  6. Retired cards do not come back on their own: Commbot does not reopen a retired card, even if the source has stock again.
14 daysnew products are never cut
10 daysvisibility is measured over days on sale
5 or fewersearch impressions in 10 days: the product is retired
25%if candidates exceed this share, it is treated as a data fault and nothing is closed that day

What it affects

The out-of-stock winner question on the Home page and the Engine setting
On the Home page: the "remove it from the store?" question for an out-of-stock winner; on the right, the Engine setting that turns this question on and off.
Out-of-stock winners (since October 1): the stock on Ozon is set to 0 right away — products without stock are not sold — but the card is not archived. If it stays out of stock for more than 7 days, the Home page shows a Winning product out of stock — remove it from the store? card. Choose Remove from store and the card is archived, reopening automatically when the source has stock again; choose Keep it and you will not be asked again during this stock-out. The question is controlled by the Don't remove winning products without asking switch in the Safety brake card on the Engine page; it is on by default.

Tips for better results

See Commbot on your own store In a demo call we review your store together; you decide whether to turn automation on after seeing the numbers.

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