Query market specific inventory using Admin API

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Topic summary

Shopify Markets introduces “surface the right inventory” per market based on which inventory locations ship to that market, implying inventory availability may vary by customer country/market. The post questions how to access this market-aware inventory through the Admin GraphQL API.

Key issue:

  • Current Admin API inventory fields don’t appear to support market/customer context.
  • The 2022-01 Admin API release notes state ProductVariant.sellableOnlineQuantity does not represent total available inventory or reflect customer-location limitations.

Open questions:

  • How to query products using an inventory_total-style filter that is customer-context aware (similar to contextualPricing).
  • How to retrieve the correct variant inventory levels for a given market context.
  • Whether this capability is planned in upcoming Admin GraphQL API updates.

No resolution is provided; the discussion is a request for clarification/roadmap.

Summarized with AI on February 25. AI used: gpt-5.2.
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The blog post on the newly announced Shopify Markets features describes the ability to:

surface the right inventory to your online store based on the inventory locations that ship to a particular market

My understanding from this paragraph is that the inventory levels for a product will be segmented by “market” or customer context (country?) - as also described here.

However the Admin API doesn’t seem to support this inventory context, and the 2022-01 API release notes even mentions specifically that the new ProductVariant sellableOnlineQuantity field “doesn’t represent the total available inventory or capture limitations based on customer location.”

So question is: how will we be able to query products based on inventory_total filter (which should be customer context aware - same as contextualPricing) or query correct inventory levels for variants based on context?

Is this planned for next round of updates for the Admin GraphQL API?