change in transfers interface has broken .next_incoming_date for products that do not have variants

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Topic summary

A December 15, 2022 update to Shopify’s Transfers interface has broken the .next_incoming_date property for products, affecting storefront functionality that relies on inventory transfer dates.

Impact:

  • Products without variants: .next_incoming_date completely non-functional
  • Products with variants: Also experiencing issues, with next_incoming_date missing from variant JSON data
  • Old/pending transfers still work, but newly added transfers fail

Business Impact:

  • Breaking frontend logic that displays incoming inventory information to customers
  • Multiple merchants affected, some relying on this data to update customers about upcoming inventory

Status:

  • Issue remains unresolved
  • Users seeking timeline for a fix
  • Reference made to Shopify changelog entry about inventory transfer updates
Summarized with AI on November 23. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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The change to Transfers (on 15th of December 2022, see changelog below) has broken .next_incoming_date for products that do not have any variants. Products that do have variants still work fine. All old transfers that I still have pending work fine. But any new transfers I add do not work.

Changes to Tranfers:

https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/updates-to-inventory-transfers

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We are also experiencing issues with the next_incoming_date, but also for products with variants.

As of the 15th of December, the variant.next_incoming_date is not present in the variant JSON data, thus breaking the logic in our frontend for incoming transfers.

When can we expect a fix for this bug?

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Same problem here. We rely on the Inventory Transfer date to update customers on upcoming inventory. This is now gone and we need a fix to this bug as well. None of our products have variants.

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