Use the UI and File Import/Export processes to manage your inventory levels.
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Inventory Overview
You can manage product inventory in Admin, which allows you to associate products with inventory and track quantities for your products. The products' storefront behavior can then be selected based on whether inventory exists for each indivi...
Real-Time Inventory Service
The Real-Time Inventory Service (RIS) provides accurate and real-time inventory visibility to your e-commerce site, using a single source of truth to reflect inventory availability. An accurate inventory picture is essential to minimize order canc...
Inventory Quantity Types
The Kibo Composable Commerce Platform (KCCP) allows you to track different inventory quantities for your products. This guide defines the quantity types, explains how they're calculated, and provides more details about the Future Available to Prom...
Configure Inventory
You must enable inventory at the location level before you can begin to associate products with inventory. For more information about configuring your inventory with category tags to differentiate between the quantities available for different...
Future Inventory
When enabled, future inventory is used to calculate the total amount that is "available to promise." This allows you to allocate against future inventory at the location level (as well as at the tag level if applicable). This calculation...
Reserve Inventory in Cart
You can reserve inventory for products in a shopper's cart for a specified amount of time, during which the inventory will be allocated for that customer even if the order is not yet placed. This allows you to guarantee inventory for low invento...
Accurate Fulfillment Dates
Before ordering a product, a shopper may appreciate visibility as to when they would receive it. The Kibo Composable Commerce Platform can calculate accurate fulfillment dates for each product that allow you to offer promised dates to your s...
Backorder Release
When inventory is not currently available but you know that more will be delivered to fulfillment locations at some point, backordering allows those items to be still be ordered. Shipments with backordered items will be placed on hold, the...
Product Bundles and Product Extras
Because they are composed differently than standard products and configurable products with options, it is important to keep the following details in mind when dealing with product bundles and product extras inventory. Bundled Inventory Bundles...
Fulfill Items Without Sufficient Stock
By default, items will not be fulfilled without sufficient on-hand quantities. However, you can override this default behavior for a specific location, which allows you to fulfill items even without sufficient on-hand quantities. Note that changes...
Inventory Workflow Examples
Refer to the following examples for some common inventory workflow scenarios. Back Ordering The following example shows a situation in which you want to track negative inventory quantities in order to keep your inventory totals accurate at the e...