Now you can keep products in your catalog even if they are permanently discontinued. Works for both simple and variable products.

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“Out of stock” implies a product that will again be in stock at some point. What if you have a product that will never be stocked again?
You could delete the product, and you could even do a 301 redirect for SEO purposes, but up till now, there was no good way to keep the product while marking it permanently out of stock.
With this plugin, this is now an option. The concept is from <a href="http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/3778491-discontinued-products-option-under-inventory-sto" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Ideas Forum</a>
The discontinued option is available in the stock status drop-down, and it works for either simple products and variable products.

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