Inventory editors appear in the same “Choose edits” panel as the price editors, with two extra choices that matter — which location the change applies to, and why it happened.
Step by step
- Filter the variants. Select by vendor, product type, SKU, barcode or inventory condition. Inventory work is variant-level, so filter accordingly.
- Choose the inventory editor. Tick inventory quantity, and inventory policy or track quantity if you are changing those too.
- Pick the operation. Set a quantity, or adjust it by an amount — increase for a delivery, decrease for breakage or a count correction.
- Choose the location. Inventory is held per location, so the edit needs to say which one.
- Choose a reason. Correction, received, restock, damaged, quality control, shrinkage and the other Shopify reasons are available — pick the one that is true.
- Preview and run. Check the variant list against your delivery note or count sheet, then run the task.
Follow the steps in your own store — the free plan covers ten products per task.
You will be redirected to the Shopify app store.
Inventory has its own per-task limit
Inventory items are counted separately from products and variants: 15 on Free, 1,500 on Basic, 7,500 on Standard and 105,000 on Plus. A large stocktake correction is what pushes stores up a plan.
Reasons are for your future self
Six months later, the difference between “shrinkage” and “correction” is the difference between a security question and a data-entry question. It costs nothing to pick the right one now.
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