Bulk edit inventory on Shopify

Inventory is the field most likely to be wrong and the most expensive to get wrong: understated stock loses sales, overstated stock produces cancellations.

The app edits inventory the way Shopify expects — per location, with a reason attached — instead of overwriting numbers and leaving the history blank.

Inventory operations

• Set quantity at a chosen location.
• Adjust quantity by amount — add or subtract from what is already there.
• Reason codes — correction, cycle count available, damaged, quality control, received, restock, shrinkage, promotion, movement and reservation events.
• Track quantity — switch inventory tracking on or off in bulk.
• Inventory policy — continue selling when out of stock, or deny it.

Finding the variants to correct

• By location — work one warehouse or store at a time.
• By total quantity — more than, less than, or equal to a threshold.
• By out of stock somewhere — the variants that are zero in at least one location.
• By track quantity — find the variants that are not tracked at all.
• By collection, vendor or product type to scope a correction to one part of the catalog.
• By SKU or barcode when you are reconciling against a supplier file.

A worked example: a stocktake correction at one location

1. Filter: product type is “Boots”, location is “Main warehouse”.
2. Editor: inventory quantity → adjust by amount, decrease by 2, reason “cycle count available”.
3. Preview the selection and exclude anything already counted.
4. Run it, then open the log — every variant shows its old and new quantity.

Stopping the overselling problem

Two settings decide whether a variant can sell into negative stock: whether quantity is tracked at all, and the inventory policy. Both are bulk-editable, so “stop selling everything that is out of stock” is one filtered task rather than a per-variant chore.

Inventory edits count towards the per-task item limit by variant, so a 5,000-variant correction needs the Standard plan or higher.

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