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Track Product Inventory
Track Inventory

Put away your spreadsheets and Post-it Notes, Big Cartel's inventory tracking makes inventory management easier. This feature helps you keep track of your stock and can prevent you from selling more items than what you have available.

Inventory tracking is available on paid plans. Upgrade from the Plan & Billing section in your admin to get this feature.

Why you should use it

With inventory tracking enabled, and overselling disabled, any item in your shop that reaches a quantity of zero will display as Sold Out automatically. This way you won't accidentally sell a product that's not available.

A note about Allow overselling: This setting, which is located just below the inventory tracking setting, would allow you to sell more of a product than what's in stock - even after the quantity hits zero. Stores with limited quantities available to sell, however, should leave this option turned off.

Adjust inventory levels

If you just restocked popular items, gave a bunch of items to a nonprofit fundraiser, or have any other reason to adjust your inventory levels, head over to an individual product listing to update its Stock count.

Steps

  1. Log in at app.bigcartel.com.
  2. Go to Shop settings > Preferences
  3. Toggle on Turn on inventory tracking.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Click the Products icon at the top.
  6. Now when you add or edit a product listing, you can enter the number of products/variants available in stock within the Stock fields.
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