---
title: "Product status"
slug: "product-status"
tags: ["Concept", "PE", "Product Engineering"]
updated: 2026-03-20T09:24:45Z
published: 2026-03-20T17:46:03Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/product-status"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Product status

## **Product status setup**

To be able to work with engineering-controlled products, you must set up the possible statuses for these products. You can freely define the statuses that are required for your engineering-controlled products.

For each product status, you can define for which types of orders the product is blocked if it has that status. You can also choose that only a warning is given.

## **Assigned product status**

If you create a product, the initial status is the **Created** status as defined for the applicable engineering product type.

## **Status versus Active**

If, in a specific company, a product is:

- **Inactive**, no transactions are allowed for the product, regardless of the product status.
- **Active**, the products status defines which transactions are allowed for the product.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> If a version became inactive after it is added to a purchase line, and the purchase order is still **Open**, you can still change and edit the purchase line.

## Related

- [Set up engineering product type](/set-up-engineering-product-type.md)
- [Set up product statuses](/set-up-product-statuses.md)