Disable "track inventory" with REST API (now that InventoryItem and InventoryLevel exist)?

Retired Boards Appdev Fulfillment Api
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Using the REST API, I’ve been able to get my product variant to use ‘track inventory’ by setting the variant’s inventory_management to “shopify”, and I’ve been able to set the inventory using the confusing InventoryLevel API.

However, I am unable to perform the equivalent of unchecking the “track quantity” checkbox via the REST API. If I try to set the variant’s inventory_management to “”, the API response indicates that inventory_management is still “shopify”

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I figure I need to do something with InventoryItem and/or InventoryLevel, but the documentation for InventoryLevel “DELETE” command suggests that every InventoryItem needs to have at least one InventoryLevel, which I assume means I can’t just delete the applicable InventoryLevel object.

Does anyone know how to do this?

(Usage scenario: removing the sales limit on a product)

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Ahoy matey!

You need to get the inventory_id for the item and then set the tracked value to false.

Example using cURL:

curl -d '{"inventory_item":{"id":{INVENTORY_ID},"tracked":false}}' \
-X PUT "https://{SHOP_NAME}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2023-01/inventory_items/{INVENTORY_ID}.json" \
-H "X-Shopify-Access-Token: {ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

{INVENTORY_ID} is the inventory Id

{ACCESS_TOKEN} is your access token

{SHOP_NAME} is your shop name

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I had that. Turned out the problem was unrelated: I was trying to use the PUT command to update the variant’s metafields at the same time, and that was blocking the command from working.

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Thanks and I’m wondering why I can’t put this option right when I create variants using Rest API. So weird!