Create Stock
After you create your sources, you can create stock. Stock provides a virtual aggregated amount of inventory for your sources connected to sales channels:
- Sales channels currently offer websites.
- Each sales channel can only have a single stock assigned to it, and a single stock can be assigned to multiple websites.
- When you assign new stock to a sales channel, any pre-existing stock in that sales channel becomes unassigned.
With a multisite configuration, you can tailor the stocks based on geography. The following are a few examples of source priority:
- For a German website, you may prioritize sources as Germany to England to France with the United States as the lowest priority. These orders fulfill through Europe with a fall-back option of the US.
- For orders originating in New York, you may prioritize warehouses in New York to Florida to Texas. For all other orders in the US, you may have the Texas warehouse as highest priority to Florida to New York.
For new installations, you start with a Default Stock. We recommend creating new stock as needed for your sales channels and sources. When you add a new website, MSI automatically creates a new stock. Review and manage your stocks for the new site when you create it.
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On the Admin sidebar, tap Stores. Then under Settings, choose Manage Stocks.
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In the upper-right corner, tap Add New Stock.
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| New Stock Page |
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(Required) Enter a unique Name for the stock.
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In Sales Channels, assign the stock to one or more listed websites.
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In Sources, click Assign Sources to add a source to this stock.
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On the Assign Sources page, click the checkboxes for the sources you want to apply to the new stock. Click Done to add.
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| Assign Sources Page |
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Set the prioritization of the sources in the Assigned Sources grid. The topmost source has top priority for inventory and fulfillment. Drag-and-drop to modify the source priority. This priority is used by the Source Selection by Priority Algorithm uses.
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When done, tap Save & Continue to return to the Manage Stock page.
The following image shows four sources assigned to Stock1. The Assign Sources Algorithm tries to fulfil the order using Default first, then Test1, Test2, and Test3.
Note: The Assigned Sources priority only affects the stock. It does not influence the Assigned Sources on the per products (which are ordered by when they are added).
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| Changing Source Selection Algorithm Priority on the New Stock Page |
To move a source up or down, click the drag handle on the left and drag the source's rectangle.
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| Changed Priority of Sources on New Stock Page |