How can I manage inventory and fulfillment with Markets?

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Topic summary

Merchants using Shopify Markets with multiple warehouse locations face a critical inventory management issue: products show as available even when out of stock at the location serving a specific market. This leads to overselling when customers can complete checkout for items that cannot be fulfilled from their designated warehouse.

Core Problem:

  • Inventory aggregates across all locations regardless of market-specific availability
  • Customers in Market A can purchase items only stocked in Market B’s warehouse
  • Merchants cannot ship cross-border due to customs, taxes, and duty restrictions

Shopify’s Response:

  • A beta feature addressing this existed but was discontinued in December 2022
  • A new “fulfillable inventory” solution launched in Winter 2024, but it’s exclusive to Shopify Plus subscribers
  • Standard plan merchants are directed to use shipping profiles as a workaround, which only removes unavailable items at checkout (poor customer experience)

Community Reaction:

  • Multiple merchants from different regions (Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, US, Canada) report identical issues
  • Strong frustration that this basic functionality requires a $27k/year Plus plan versus $1,200 for standard plans
  • One developer created a third-party app as an alternative solution

Status: Unresolved for non-Plus merchants. Shopify acknowledges the limitation and claims ongoing development, but no timeline provided for standard plan availability.

Summarized with AI on October 27. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Is anyone from Shopify monitoring this forum? Is this something in the pipeline? Is there a wish list where requested feature demand is being monitored? We are also suffering from this.

according to this link, it says " This feature isn’t available to add to stores. Stores that added this feature before December 2022 can continue to use it" which seems to imply it use to be an available feature and it has now been removed?