Shopify Inventory

Shopify Inventory Management

After you've connected your store you'll notice locations, products, vendors, inventory, customers, and orders start to flow into SKUSavvy. With this information, you can eventually replace any need for managing inventory within Shopify or any other app besides SKUSavvy for that matter. This guide will take you through adding Shopify inventory to your SKUSavvy bin locations.

Video Overview

Important to Note

Connect Shopify Inventory

The first step to getting inventory flowing between Shopify and SKUSavvy is to connect your store. Follow the guide below or go directly into your account > Shopify to follow the steps.

Resync Shopify Inventory

You can resync your inventory from Shopify into SKUSavvy or from SKUSavvy into Shopify. Depending on the origin for your resync this will send up an override of the inventory from one system to another. 

Next, select which direction you want to sync from/to and indicate which location(s) you want to resync. 

• 1) Select the origin for the inventory source of truth. These numbers will be used to override the other system numbers

• 2) Select the locations you want to resync

Shopify Inventory Locations

Once connected each of the locations you have within your Shopify account will create a 'Warehouse' within your SKUSavvy account. Inventory that is currently tracked within Shopify at this location will now show within your SKUSavvy account, although it is not available until put-away into a bin.

If you are using Shopify custom fulfillment and hold stock at these locations, these will also show up within your SKUSavvy account, though they will not contain an address since Shopify does not provide this.

Sync a New Location

Using the location sync feature you can bring over and connect new locations added within Shopify to your warehouses in SKUSavvy. To do so, simply head over to the Shopify connection within SKUSavvy and find the store you want to add the new location from, then tap on 'Add Locations'. 

Add new Location

Select Location to Import

Connect a SKUSavvy Warehouse or Create a New One

Shopify Inventory Allocation

Now that you have Shopify locations and inventory flowing into SKUSavvy it's time to allocate the inventory quantity to bin locations on the visual warehouse manager.

The reason to allocate inventory to bin locations within SKUSavvy is so that you will know exactly where inventory is held within the warehouse. This is used for search purposes as well as during the picking process to pick orders faster.

Note

If you haven't created a warehouse layout yet, this should come before inventory allocation

Create Warehouse Layout

Learn About Warehouse Layouts

Step 1: Click the warehouse location you want to allocate inventory

Step 2: Select Inventory for that Warehouse

Step 3: Open Inventory Item and Click 'Allocation Needed'

Step 4: Select a Bin Location and Quantity to Allocate

If you haven't created a warehouse layout, you'll want to do this ahead of your inventory allocation

Bulk Allocate Stock

From within the inventory view in a warehouse you can bulk allocate inventory that has come over from Shopify. Simply select the bulk allocation tool, filters products you want to allocate, and select a bin for the stock.

Note this is only available for Shopify inventory that has not been placed in a bin yet

1) Select or scan a bin to allocate inventory from selected items in bulk
2) Filter items you want to allocate, you can combine multiple filters from a search, product type, product tags, price
3) Uncheck an item to remove it from the bulk allocation list 
4) Click ALLOCATE

Inventory Reconciliation

Something that may happen once you've connected your Shopify store to SKUSavvy, is that you end up seeing a negative inventory quantity for your items

• This happens when you've connected Shopify and you fulfilled orders outside of SKUSavvy

• SKUSavvy is looking for the bin location and quantity of the inventory that was taken to fulfill the order externally

• When you reconcile the record, you match up where the inventory was taken from within your physical location to fulfill the order

Warehouse > Inventory

NOTE: you must already have inventory allocated to another bin location in your warehouse to reconcile the record since the inventory must come from a bin location within your warehouse

• Click the red 'Reconciliation Needed' then:

• 1) Select another bin already ccontaining this item to take the inventory quantity from

• 2) Select the quantity to take from this bin (can be split across several bins)

• 3) Finalize the reconciliation

Bulk Reconcile Stock

You can also bulk reconcile stock to ensure all your stock is always accurate. For reference reconciliations happen when you fulfill stock externally to SKUSavvy, and when that stock has more than one bin location SKUSavvy creates a reconciliation record to determine where the stock came from.

• 1) Select the flattened list view

• 2) Choose bulk reconciliation

Select a bin to reconcile stock from. If no bin exists you can choose to delete the reconciliation or add stock to cover the reconciliation for full transparency.

Inventory Guides

Learn how to adjust your inventory and move inventory between bin locations.

Learn how to move your inventory between two bin locations using barcode scanning.