Adding Products (not inventory quantities) to a new Location

[NoreasterAppare]

For a year, we've had one location running. Now we're setting up a second location within our shopify store. 

All the products are available under the original location. 

None of our products are showing up under the new location we just created. 

Is there a way to do a bulk edit, to make them all available under the new location? The only solutions I can find, is to go into each product/variation and manually activate the new location. I have over 2000 variants... there has to be a way to do it in bulk. 

Chat support was no help. 

To clarify, I'm not trying to transfer inventory quantities to the new location. I'm trying to make our products sellable from both locations. 

Thanks

[PaulNewton]

Hi @NoreasterAppare 👋 Use the inventory CSV

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/inventory/getting-started-with-inventory/inventory-csv 

To clarify, I'm not trying to transfer inventory quantities to the new location. I'm trying to make our products sellable from both locations. 

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Locations are separate so shopify has no notion of inventory pooling/sharing, each location get unique inventory.

An inventory management/sync app , or other automation , is needed to keep inventory levels in sync between separate locations as purchases are made.

For bespoke scenarios custom logic can be scripted in usemechanic https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?q=sync 

If you need this type of automation created then contact me for services
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[NoreasterAppare]

thanks, i'm not talking about synching inventory levels. i'm talking about products. 

the CSV import only updates inventory quantities... that's not what i'm trying to do. 

[PaulNewton]

In this context locations == inventory, "location" is just a wrapper, a label for a set of inventory behavior for a product; otherwise it be a form of product duplication.

Also see the bulk editor https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/fulfillment/setup/locations/assigning-inventory-to-locations 

in bulk editor > columns > add locations

[NoreasterAppare]

Is there a video demonstrating a bulk edit? There's no option to add locations under any bulk editor/columns that I can find. 

[PaulNewton]

Following the above manual, in the inventory admin > selecting products > then bulk edit:

In the inventory bulk editor, columns editor on the top right:

[NoreasterAppare]

Right, so I can get that far. But there's no way to "turn on" the new location. It says, not stocked. 

the only way i can get the new location to stock each variant is to manually update each one. 

 

[NoreasterAppare]

I've confirmed through support the the functionality I was looking for does not exist as a native Shopify bulk edit option. 

[Ablestar_Daniel · Accepted solution]

Hi @NoreasterAppare,

Unfortunately I'm not aware of a good way to do this within the Shopify admin. If you're open to using a third-party app though, you can do this in a few clicks with our Ablestar Bulk Product Editor.

After the app's installed you just need to:

1. Search for the products you want to modify. If your case you can filter for all products not connected to a specific location but you can also add other filters based on vendor, date created or other fields
   
   
2. Click on Edit products and configure the edit to connect the inventory to your location:
   
3. Click on Run edit and the app will connect all the products to the new location(s) for you.

You can see the progress of the edit as it's working and you can also revert the changes if you need to.

I hope this helps, happy to answer any other questions you might have, either about the app or managing inventory in general.

Best,

Daniel

[NoreasterAppare]

Thanks, I just installed the app and it worked great. I'm always shocked at how few native functions Shopify has when they are so expensive and offer very little support. 

Appreciate your help! 

Jay