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Topic summary
Fabric sellers are seeking solutions to manage fractional inventory (quarters, halves, eighths of yards) where available stock automatically adjusts after each sale. For example, when 0.25 yards is sold from 5 yards in stock, all quantity options should update to reflect 4.75 yards remaining.
Proposed Solutions:
- Fractional Product Quantities for POS app (apps.shopify.com/pos-fractional-quantities): Allows selling products in fractional amounts through Shopify POS, automatically syncing inventory and maintaining accurate analytics. A video demo is available, though no live storefront examples exist since it’s primarily POS-focused.
- Sell-by-weight theme customization (sell-by-weight.myshopify.com, password: sbw): A theme-based solution for online stores that displays fractional increments.
Outstanding Issues:
- One user reports the solution doesn’t properly display fractions in the shopping cart.
- Questions remain about cost reporting accuracy for fractional sales and whether products can be tagged/filtered for fractional selling.
The discussion remains open with no definitive resolution confirmed by the original poster.