Change "Inventory will be stocked at" from "Shop Location" to "Printify" (3rd-party app) using API

Topic summary

A user is attempting to change the “Inventory will be stocked at” setting from “Shop Location” to “Printify” (a third-party fulfillment app) via API for a product or variant. After 4 days of troubleshooting without success, they’ve tried multiple approaches including activating inventory settings.

Current Status:

  • The product has SKUs properly configured
  • It’s a newly created product with Printify SKUs attached to the correct variants
  • No unfulfilled orders exist for this item
  • The API changes still aren’t working as expected

A support representative is gathering information to diagnose the issue, confirming SKU setup and order fulfillment status. The problem remains unresolved.

Summarized with AI on November 6. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Been pulling my hair spending 4 days trying to Change “Inventory will be stocked at” from “Shop Location” to “Printify” (3rd-party app) using API - for the product or a variant. Read and tried everything under the sun without success - even inventoryActivate.

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hi, there

You need to have a sku for that item. please confirm.

i got sku, it still doesn’t work

confirm that are there any unfulfillment orders ? if so ,try fulfillment them .

confirmed.
it’s a newly created product, with all printify sku’s attached to the right variants.