What is Close at Quantity?
The "Close at Quantity" is a threshold that, when reached, marks your SKU as sold out on your online stores. For example, if a product's close at quantity is set to 10, Sumtracker will push 0 as the available inventory to your online store when the item's inventory reaches 10 or below 10. This reserves 10 units of the product, which can be useful in various scenarios such as wholesale orders, physical store inventory, creating an artificial scarcity of a product or simply to reserve quantity in stock for fast moving items.
Important Points to Keep in Mind
The close at quantity has to be set for each warehouse separately
The close at quantity works independently for each location in Shopify. If a product's inventory at a specific location hits the threshold, that location in Shopify will be marked as out of stock for that product. This does not affect the inventory status at other locations.
For instance, if you have set a close at quantity of 10 for a product and one of your warehouses reaches this threshold, only that warehouse will show the product as out of stock. The product will still be available at other locations where the inventory is above the threshold.
Close at quantity can only be set for normal products. It cannot be set for bundles.
For bundles, the close at quantity for individual components will determine the bundle's stock status.
How Close at Quantity works?
For Normal Products
SKU | Warehouse | Available Inventory | Close at Quantity | Status on Store |
BLUE-JEANS-M | Main Location | 15 | 10 | In Stock |
RED-TSHIRT-L | Main Location | 12 | 5 | In Stock |
GREEN-SKIRT-S | Main Location | 8 | 8 | Sold Out |
In this example, the "GREEN-SKIRT-S" SKU will be marked as sold out in your online store because its available inventory has reached the close at quantity threshold.
For Bundle Products
Lets say you are selling a bundle with SKU Moisturiser-Serum-Bundle with the following components
Example 1: All Components are above Close at quantity. Bundle SKU will be Available at Main Location
SKU | Warehouse | Available Inventory | Close at Quantity | Status on Store |
Moisturiser | Main Location | 15 | 10 | In Stock |
Serum | Main Location | 12 | 5 | In Stock |
Example 2: One of the Component reaches Close at Quantity. Bundle SKU will become sold out at Main Location.
SKU | Warehouse | Available Inventory | Close at Quantity | Status on Store |
Moisturiser | Main Location | 9 | 10 | Sold out |
Serum | Main Location | 12 | 5 | In Stock |
Changing Close at Quantity
From Inventory Page
Navigate to the Inventory page.
Verify the Warehouse you are setting the Close at quantity for
Update the Close at quantity column
