The addition of new system flags means you can now hide child products from search and fast order entry. By default, searching by product code or description will include child products in the results (if they match criteria). However, now you can:

  1. Allow searching of child products by stockcode only - description searches won't return child products in results, but searching an exact child product code will. (version 3.99+)
  2. Hide child products completely - description and stockcode searches won't return child products, ever. Only the master product will be displayed. (version 3.92+)

Please contact Commerce Vision if you're interested in configuring your site to hide child products.