Can I schedule products to appear/disappear from donation forms?

Jared Counts

I'm setting up a handful of products for our upcoming fundraising campaign (NPR affiliate in Houston), and I want to be able to set them to publish/unpublish at certain times. We've got some products that are being offered during specific days and specific programs. In the options under Fundraising > eCommerce > Products, there are settings to dictate product availability, but in my preliminary testing, the settings didn't seem to have any effect. Publishing a product made it appear immediately, but leaving it inactive made it not show up at all, even during the time it was supposed to be available.

Are these settings strictly for eCommerce stores, or do they apply to Donation Forms too? If so, is there an explicit process to make it work (e.g. do I publish the item or leave it inactive?)?