Stock sync is an opt-in feature which allows SKULabs to act as your master of inventory and push outbound inventory to your sales channel, overwriting the inventory quantities on your chosen products and sales channels.

This is our technical guide for preparing for stock sync. It's important you read this once you're ready to take your first steps.

Stock sync can be enabled, disabled, and customized by visiting your settings, clicking the inventory tab at the top, then clicking the stock sync option. Click the orange pencil icon on the right to modify a store's stock sync settings.

From your stock sync settings, edit a store to select the warehouses you want linked to a location.

Each linked warehouse's stock is added together when pushing stock to listings at that location. e.g. "Main Warehouse" has 55 purple spoons. "Overstock Warehouse" has 33 purple spoons. Linking both warehouses to the store "USA Shopify" will push a quantity of 88 for purple spoon listing on that store.

If the location requires automated deduction, such as a POS location, link it to a single warehouse so orders can be automatically deducted.
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If a location that requires automated deduction is linked to multiple warehouses, reach out to our team in chat for ways to configure your deduction strategy. There are ways to route deductions to warehouses based on rules. Otherwise, this will result in no control over which SKULabs warehouse is used for automated POS order deduction and it may cause unexpected behavior.

Stock rule determines the quantity to push to listings on your sales channel. The default stock rule "free" is calculated as the quantity you have "on hand" minus your sold inventory known as your "reserve". Stock rules can be configured per store as well as per listing. View our advanced stock rule settings for more information.

This option allows you to begin the in-app activation steps for enabling stock sync. To update your warehouse links without enabling stock sync, leave this unchecked before clicking save.

Supported on Shopify and BigCommerce. Instead of pushing 0 for anything that is unavailable, we can push the actual overcommitment of inventory to your sales channel. This can reveal sales figures for pre-orders on your website and is generally recommended to be left disabled.

This option can help prevent your team from mistakenly deducting orders from the wrong warehouse. This is useful if you have very strict order routing pre-determined by the order's origin location and line-item assignments in Shopify.