Help! I need a better way to keep track my shirt inventory

[OuchApparel]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to find a better way to keep track of my inventory. My situation is that I have T-Shirt blanks and I plan on pressing them on demand. I don't have a set inventory of the actual shirts with the designs on them, but I do have an exact number of each Size and Color of the shirt.

I have three different products on my "products" page and they all have different designs, but I will be using the same blank shirts for them for each variant. I want it so that when somebody orders a "Small-White" shirt of design "A"  then my overall inventory for a "Small-White" shirt goes down for design "B" and "C" as well.

If this is still confusing please let me know, and I will elaborate further.

Thank you all,
OuchApparel LLC

[Sushant]

Hi @OuchApparel ,

There is already an app for this called Simple Materials.

In your case, the blank tshirs are essentially your raw material and your printed designs are your finished goods.

In case you also sell blank tshirts, you can try another app called Connected Inventory

[ZEN08]

Hello,  

I also have a dilemma 😞

ok so let’s say I have 8 heat press transfers and 2 different color t shirt I’m goin got offer and each color t shirt I have 10… how can I stop selling at 8? Not overselling what I don’t have 🥺— I hope this makes sense lol some please help!! How would keep track of both heat transfer and t shirt separately? HELP!

[EasifyApps]

Hi, I'd like to suggest a solution for your store:

1. First, create your Main product with the quantity set according to your Heat press transfers (8). Don't add any color variants to this product.

2. Next, create a separate product for your Blank T-shirts with color variants. Assign specific quantities to each color. This product should be active but hidden from your storefront using some techniques.

3. Then, use the Easify Product Options app to create Color options (e.g., Color/Image Swatch). Link each option to the corresponding Blank T-shirt variant you created for inventory tracking.

4. Finally, add these Color options from the app to your Main product.

This way, your customers can select color options linked to the Blank T-shirts without affecting the inventory of your main product, which is based on Heat press transfers 🤗.

[NicholeTPG]

Did you ever get an answer? Having the same problem here and the bundle apps are not what I’m looking for. 

[Joe47]

Hi @NicholeTPG,

We have recently launched Material Manager to help manage these inventory issues. It would allow you to enter an inventory of different t-shirts to use as raw materials. Then you would assign each variant that is created from a blank t-shirt to the respective raw material. It will ensure that all your products that use the same raw material keep their inventory levels in sync.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

[NicholeTPG]

Does it allow you to not have the raw materials set to active? I don’t want to sell my blanks and patches separately. I just want to sell it as finished with the set amount of patches I have pulling from the raw material blanks.

[Joe47]

The raw materials are tracked separately from your Shopify products. So they can never be purchased on their own.

You decide which product variants are linked to which raw materials. When a variant linked to a raw material is sold it draws down the inventory of the raw material. All other variants that are linked to that raw material also have their inventory levels updated to match.

[ChirpChirp]

I am also having this issue. We have raw materials (blank shirts and DTF transfers) and want to not oversell. Is there a Shopify solution for this? The third party apps cost money and they have horrible reviews.  

[brookelolkema]

Did you ever figure something out? 

[ChirpChirp]

Not yet. I am still looking for a solution to this. I did find a dirty and rough way to do it in bundles but have an issue if I want to advertise 2 colors of shirts that have 2 DTF (black for white shirt and white for black shirt). The shirts that I can use 1 DTF for both colors works fine with the dirty and rough workaround.