Does Shopify API support allocation of sold inventory to appropriate locations?

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Topic summary

Main issue: Clarify whether Shopify’s API can allocate inventory to the correct physical location at the moment of sale, and which endpoint enables this.

Context: The team integrates with NCR for inventory management. They can already update inventory quantities per location when identifiers match (e.g., “5 shoes at location 131”).

Open question: Does Shopify support allocating sold units to a specific location with available quantity via API? If yes, what is the exact API call? The requester cannot find documentation indicating this capability.

Notes: “API” refers to the application programming interface used to programmatically update and retrieve Shopify data.

Status: No answer or confirmation provided in the thread. Documentation gap identified; assistance from Shopify is requested. The discussion remains open with no decisions or action items beyond seeking official guidance.

Summarized with AI on January 19. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi,

We are working with NCR for inventory management and they had a question about the Shopify API. Can I get some assistance from Shopify on this question?

"I know we can send up inventory data to a location in Shopify, as long as they match. So if we have 5 shoes at 131, we can inform Shopify and it’ll keep track of that. I need to know if Shopify supports the ability to allocate inventory as it is sold to the appropriate location (ie a location with qty available)?

Does the API support sending that data and if so what is the API call? I’m not seeing anything in the docs that shows it supported but need to know if it is or not."

Thanks,

sam