Available vs on hand
Available, committed, unavailable, on hand. Four numbers for one variant. The gap between two of them is why your alerts and your reorders disagree.
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Shopify inventory blog
Shorter and more current than the guides. Shopify changes, seasonal stock planning and the operational problems that show up between one restock and the next.
Finding untracked variants
An untracked variant has no number, so no alert can fire on it and no report will show it. Here is how to find yours.
When one channel oversells
Every article on overselling tells you to sync your channels. You have one. Five reasons a single Shopify store still sells the unit twice.
When the count does not match
Shopify says 12, the shelf has 7. Where the missing units go, why some gaps are not errors at all and what drift does to every alert you rely on.
Setting thresholds before Q4
The number that worked in July fires too late in November. Here is how to work out the Q4 number and when to change it.
Know before a SKU hits zero
Stockwell watches every variant at every location and emails your team when stock falls under the level you set.
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