How to add/delete stock from new locations

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Topic summary

A user is trying to manage inventory across multiple locations in Shopify, specifically adding or changing products to “not stocked” status at different locations.

What works:

  • For products without variants: Successfully using Products > Inventory > Edit Locations following Shopify’s official documentation

The problem:

  • For products with variants: The inventory section doesn’t appear on the product page, making the standard instructions ineffective
  • Current workaround involves “transferring” stock between locations, which:
    • Only adds locations, doesn’t allow deletion
    • Requires fixing inventory at the original location afterward
    • Is inefficient overall

The user is seeking advice on whether they’re missing something or if there’s a better method for managing variant product inventory across locations.

Summarized with AI on November 9. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi all,

I want to add or delete inventory to new locations, ie currently in inventory a product might list as “not stocked” and I want to add inventory. Or alternatively, a product may have stock in a certain location and I want to change it to “not stocked”.

I have figured out how to do this in products with no variants, via products>inventory>edit locations

This is as per these instructions: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/locations/assigning-inventory-to-locations?section=Android

However, when I try to do this with products that have variants, these instructions don’t work you can see as per the product page in the image attached that there is no inventory section. Am I missing something here?

The only work around I have found is to “transfer” stock from one location to another, as this adds it to the new location. However I then have to fix the inventory at the original location - it’s basically not very efficient. And that workaround only works to add a stock location, not if I want to delete a location.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks Kabir

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