Hi,
I want to develop an app that would determine whenever an item is out of stock, or whenever an item is restocked.
My first approach to determine if an item is out of stock was to read every HTTP request from the orders/paid Webhook and extract every variant_id of each items in line_items.
Once I get every variant_id of the order, I make an API call that includes them.
/admin/api/2020-04/variants/{variant_id}.json
My app extracts the following data from the API call.
- option1
- sku
- inventory_quantity
To determine if the item that was just purchased is out of stock, I would only need to compare the inventory_quantity to the value of 0. If the value is equal to 0, then I can trigger whatever I want (update a row in a spreadsheet, send an sms notification and much more).
Now, the problem is that I can't figure a manner to determine if a product is restocked. The inventory_levels/update Webhook gives me the available field where I can see how many times we have a specific item, but I can't see if the old inventory level was 0 or 2. (where 2 would mean that the quantity of that item is not restocked, but decreased by 1).
I'll take every suggestions, and I hope every has a great day 🙂
