Every page in your Atlas dashboard carries a status badge. The status tells you three things at once: whether customers can see the page, whether you can still change it freely, and whether it counts towards your bill. This is the reference for all three.
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The statuses
Status | On your storefront | In Atlas | Counts towards billing |
| Not visible | Editable, saved | No |
| Not visible | Being built, cannot be edited | No |
| Live in the theme it was published to | Editable, republish to apply changes | Yes, once |
Draft means the page exists in Atlas but has not been put into a theme. Drafts are free and unlimited in practical terms. Build as many as you like and publish only the ones you want.
Generating means the build is running. You can leave it: the build runs on Atlas's servers, so closing the tab does not stop it, and the page is saved when it finishes.
Published means Atlas has written the page into a theme. Whether customers can actually see it depends on whether that theme is your live theme.
ℹ️ Published in Atlas means published to a theme, not necessarily visible to customers. A page published to a theme that is not live sits there waiting until you publish that theme in Shopify.
What each status means for billing
This is where status matters most, because the rule is not the obvious one.
A page becomes billable the moment it is published, and it counts once for the billing cycle in which that happened.
A page stays counted for that cycle even if you delete it. The usage record is permanent. Deleting the page does not lower your published pages count and does not reduce your bill.
Republishing never counts twice. A page counts once, however many times you republish it.
A multi-page build counts every page it produced. A full store that generates a home page and four product pages counts as five published pages, not one.
⚠️ If you are near a tier boundary, delete drafts rather than published pages. Deleting a published page reduces nothing on your bill, and it also removes your ability to edit and republish it later.
Your included allowance is 10 published pages per billing cycle. Full tiers are in Atlas usage rates and tiers.
What deleting does
Delete on a page row removes the page from Atlas. That is all it does.
Deleting a page | Effect |
Removes it from your Atlas dashboard | Yes |
Removes the published page from your theme | No |
Takes the page off your storefront | No |
Reduces your published pages count for the cycle | No |
Can be undone | No |
⚠️ Deleting a published page in Atlas does not remove it from your store. The page stays live in your theme, and you must remove it separately in Shopify, in the theme editor. Deleting in Atlas only means you can no longer edit or republish it.
Deleting one page asks Are you sure you want to delete {name}? This action can't be undone. Deleting several warns This can't be undone. and adds {count} of these are published and live on your store. when any of them are live. That second line tells you what you are about to remove from your store.
Other labels you may see
Label | Meaning |
| This page is a variation of another page, made with a new angle or language |
| A marker shown briefly on a row you have just changed |
| The page type, shown under the page name |