Hello everyone,
I am opening a store and I am going to laser powder coated mugs. I am going to make the Mugs to order, So I do not have wasted inventory on images that may not sell. I am looking into variants and Metafields, I am trying to understand how that works. So if I have 7 images, and 4 black mugs inventory, do I run a risk of selling 7 black mugs? What are some solutions you have? Do I need an application for this?
Hello @BlairOyler
See inventory sync apps in the app store, or use an automation app like usemechanic to make custom sync logic
Example https://tasks.mechanic.dev/keep-inventory-levels-in-sync-within-products
..if I have 7 images, and 4 black mugs inventory, do I run a risk of selling 7 black mugs..
This depends on how you’ve setup the products and the variants.
If Image selected by a customer does not affect sku’s or prices you may want them to just be line item properties and then only have 1 mug product with no variants.
https://community.shopify.com/topic/616503
If you need the images to be how the overall product is present with mugs just being a material pool but affecting inventory so when 1 “image” is bought then all inventory goes down for that mug type|color then you need to use an app to sync the inventory between such variants|products|skus and make sure inventory management is on with “Continue selling when sold out” disabled.
Or be discipline enough to manually update all inventory in the admin or in bulk using either the admins bulk editor feature or inventory export/import with CSV spreadsheet files.