Is it just me, or does anyone else dislike, and frankly don’t understand the thought behind the changes to the inventory section. I see NO benefit and everything takes me at least 3 more clicks to update the inventory than previously. I would LOVE to revert to the way it was.
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I’m not sure exactly what you’re talking about, but I will echo it’s too many clicks! If I want to update the barcode, cost, weight, etc. I need to navigate to EACH VARIANT to do so. Oh, sure, I could use the “Apply to all variants” for the weights, but not the others attributes. It’s highly irritating when the layout doesn’t support the fact that most variants are the SAME THING take away things like color or flavor or scent or something similar.
I’m talking about the fact that I now have to specify whether I want to increase or decrease the inventory and do so in separate places, rather than just put a number in a blank. I also have to click both done and save. And if I want to search for a product it wants to help me by adding text for the categories to what I type, like tag or vendor, that I have to go back and delete when I’m just trying to look for a specific product by name.
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I also agree with you on the variants. We are often changing on thing only that will be the same on all of the choices.
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Yeah the new inventory interface is clunky as hell. You can’t revert it but if you’re doing bulk updates you might want to try exporting to CSV, making changes there, and reimporting. What kind of inventory updates are you doing most often?
I’m typically doing each order as it arrives, which could be anywhere from 10 products to 75. But I think setting up a CSV file would probably take me even longer than the new interface, because we have so many products and so many vendors. Sometimes, I also do them one off, if we have to replace something, but that’s not where the real hassle is. Thanks for the suggestion though.
If you’re frustrated with recent inventory management changes, having a dedicated tool for physical counts can help keep things accurate regardless of what Shopify changes on the backend. We created an app for this Pasilobus Stock Take lets you do barcode-scanned counts and shipment receiving. You can watch the app demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3I4V9e3ZZQ
You can also easily scan to take against purchase orders or transfers. Hope that helps!
I have a few clients using this stocktake app, and they love it for full or rolling stocktakes. It’s a great way of easily ensuring your inventory is accurate.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but that’s more than I need. I prefer Shopify leave something that worked fine over having to add an app.
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Hey @Anne_Schreck If you are having difficulty with the native system, please free to try out Prediko. We have great reviews on the App store for our UI and we make it easy brands to manage inventory
What I’m having is an annoyance, not something requiring an app. It was fine before, and still works with extra steps.
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Got it. My bad. I thought you were looking for an app.
No worries. Thanks for checking.
Thanks for highlighting this issue. Workflow efficiency is really important in retail and POS systems, especially when staff need to update inventory quickly during busy hours. If the new design adds extra clicks without improving functionality, it can definitely slow operations. It would be helpful to hear from others in the community whether they’re experiencing the same challenge and if there are any planned improvements or alternatives for smoother inventory updates.
Yes, Lisa, I was hoping for input from other users and/or developers, and not just app providers. Hopefully some will come.
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It seems like Anne got the update before we did as this just began for us and its pretty awful. It was simple, type in inventory adjustment and drop down to give context. Now you click the stock number, go to the other side of the screen to “adjust by”, cant give it context, have different areas for subtracting or adding inventory. I really want the devs to go through the motions of putting in inventory using this system and the old one.
Or better yet just the option to opt out of this “update”
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I agree. the update is not better. It adds clicks and doesn’t solve an issue. The old system was fine and the update is more steps.
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The new search bar is super annoying. They did this previously, the community went into an uproar about how poor the design was, and they took it out. I hope they remove it again. Obviously the designers are not the users. They aren’t suffering with the changes the way the user do.
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I think this inventory change is because they are scrambling to make it usable for the POS merchants that are losing Stocky as of August. They have no suitable replacement for the entire inventory control and purchasing and stock takes that they are removing, so they are trying to mess with the current shopify inventory control. I know they won’t have a suitable replacement so I’m not even going to bother with them as the inventory control system anymore, and am moving to a new system entirely. They can be my website engine and nothing more from now on.
Literally now how this works.
Bad mindset setting yourself up for continued frustration and dependence on a publicly traded company.
Shopify is a SASS platform the admin will ALWAYS be changing for a multitude of reasons most of which will never include you as a consideration.
If you don’t like others apps, use the apis to build your own custom process.
There’s even an app-generator built into the admin for Grow and up plans(basic plan access expires end of april).
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/productivity-tools/sidekick/generate-apps
Or even better use spreadsheets the lingua franca of business to make your own workflows.
Workflows that can be completely immune to the dumb changes shopify does and make it way easer to migrate if you ever choose.
Build your OWN processes for YOUR business that survive platform changes.
Otherwise you training yourself to only accept what’s put in front of you and suffer for it everything they shuffle the UI backlog.