How to adjust inventory threshold in an omni channel store?

Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment

Topic summary

Main issue: Prevent selling the last in-store display unit (inventory = 1) and prioritize fulfillment from warehouses; also asks if online orders can be fulfilled from one warehouse while POS uses another.

Proposed workaround: Use Shopify Draft Orders with Stock Reservation to “hold” the display item so it’s unavailable for sale. Steps: create a Draft Order in Shopify Admin, add the display item, reserve its stock, and set a release date (or long-term hold). The Inventory tab will then show the item as unavailable due to the draft order, preventing it from being sold. A video demo is provided (YouTube link).

Scope/terms: “Draft Orders” and “Stock Reservation” are used to temporarily remove inventory from available stock without deleting it.

Status: No direct setting for an automated per-location threshold or explicit confirmation about routing online vs. POS to different warehouses. The thread offers a manual reservation workaround; original questions about fulfillment routing remain unanswered/ongoing.

Summarized with AI on December 12. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello

I have an omni channel store

1 online - 1 brick & mortar - 2 warehouses.

My Brick & Mortar store will sometimes have items that only have 1 item in stock as it is a display item.

How can I stop selling from this location and use stock from the warehouse when inventory threshold reaches 1. I do not want to sell the display item.

Can I set my online store fulfillment center to be 1 warehouse and my brick & mortar (POS) from another warehouse?

thanks

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Hey would this work for you?

We solved this using Draft Orders + Stock Reservation. We did a video on it here - https://youtu.be/mRUcIfXICOw

Basically what you do is create a Draft Order on Shopify from the Shopify Admin, add all of the items you want to reserve to the draft then reserve the stock. You can set a particular day to release it back, or set the date for a really long time. Once you’ve saved that order, to check its working have a look at the Inventory tab and see if its marked as unavailable due to the draft order you created.

Hope that helps, thanks, Andy