inventorySetQuantities-The specified inventory item is not stocked at the location-problematic API

[james148]

inventorySetQuantities is great, it's fast.

It, however, suffers from a serious deficiency - the lack of ability to auto-activate items at locations.

We need to sync inventory from ERPs and most of the ERPs we deal with has no facility to record/flag if a specific inventory level if has been previously sent to an external solution (such as Shopify).  

If we have a single inventory record where it hasn't been activated at a location ALL other records in the 'batch' fail! 

This means we just use 'inventoryActivate' as it is the only way we can guarantee that we add missing inventoryItem at the specified location.

A vast improvement would be to add another flag to auto-activate an item - and carry with this a higher query cost.

[Liam · Accepted solution]

Hi James,

I see how adding the ability to auto activate an inventory item would improve efficiency and reduce the need for additional work on your app. I've flagged this with our team - thanks for highlighting this!

[james148]

Thanks, greatly appreciated.