Track Sub-Locations (i.e. overstock storage)

[thefourthplace]

I recenty opened a brick and mortar location, after using Shopify for ecommerce.

One situation that's new to me is needing to have the same item in multiple places, and keeping track. I'd love to be able to track which items I have kept in storage, so when I sell out of what is on site, I can see that I still have inventory in storage, to take out before I order more.

My current method is to track all inventory as being available (which it is), which helps stop me from reordering, but that doesn't distinguish where in the shop it is. What solutions have you come up with to represent sub-locations?

[RubyWalker]

Like many people, we have a  somewhat similar situation in our store, where a certain percentage of our inventory is stored offsite in a warehouse/storage unit. We elected not to track this separately (for now), but the built-in Shopify location support looked like it would work fine for us – i.e.  set up the warehouse as a separate location in Shopify (set to non-fulfilment to prevent the warehouse stock showing as available - although you can do it either way), enter and manage the inventory at the warehouse separately from the store, and use the Shopify transfer facility to track physical stock movements from warehouse to store.

Of course, if your stock is all onsite and you simply want to track stockroom vs shop floor, then the above is almost certainly overkill. I guess you might find an app that could help with that situation.

[DBO]

I've had a similar yet different issue - I own a plant nursery, and I was looking to keep stock of plants that are ready for sale, those that are still in growing stages (pre-sale), and which are breed stock. In addition to these categorizations, I wanted to know where in the nursery every seedling/plant was - I found that I went through a paid 3rd party app  - PULPO WMS that allowed me to do this as a warehouse management system, but it would only populate the items that are "ready for sale" as being available for purchase online in Shopify (I do e-commerce only right now). I would image that the shelf setup and item allocation (can have items in multiple places) and process picking, packing, shipping for orders and they have just rolled out a new function for POS orders as well. I utilize the inventory tracking through shopify, but use PULPO to as my "source of truth" for inventory count and stock locations.