Hi, The inventory quantity is not decreasing when the REST order create API is called, no matter I set inventory_behaviour as decrement_ignoring_policy or decrement_obeying_policy. I saw two unsolved topics in the forum so I wonder whether it is working properly now? My orders are all created succ…

Hey Sean, The problem is that you are passing in a product_id for the order line_items instead of a variant_id. Since inventory is tied to variants, you need to specify the variant_id in order for the inventory behaviour to execute properly.

Is inventory_behaviour working properly for REST Order Create API?

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SeanZ March 29, 2019, 3:53pm 6

Could you please help me by checking this order response?

{
    "order": {
        "id": 953703399529,
...

I am 80% sure I was using decrement_obeying_policy for inventory_behaviour.

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Is inventory_behaviour working properly for REST Order Create API?

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