Seeking a Solution for Custom Inventory Management for Limited Editions throu Drop-shipping Business

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I currently face what appears to be a unique challenge with my print-on-demand business. I aim to sell Limited Editions through my Shopify store.

My inventory is controlled by my drop shipper’s third-party app, which brings the products into the store and fulfils them. However, I need to control my product listings independently. Even though the drop-shipper may have many prints available, I want to limit the listing for each product to just one. Once sold, it should be marked as sold out across all variants, ensuring only one item is sold per product.

I’m seeking a solution that allows me to separate my store inventory from the drop shipper’s available stock, enabling me to create product bundles where I control the inventory. When an order is placed, I want to initiate fulfilment with the drop shipper myself. The drop shipper’s stock should only override my inventory if they run out of items.

Ideally, I’d like to ‘ghost’ the products I have set up with the Dropshipper, making them available at my store and setting them as the master inventory. When an order is placed, it should be on hold until I manually initiate fulfilment with my drop-shipper.

Can anyone provide a practical and feasible solution to this situation? I’m looking for clear steps that I can implement.

Many thanks,

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Hi @MagicMandalas ,

This can be solved using custom app and custom code.

This will be the flow.

You need a product meta field which will have the inventory count you want.

for every successful order meta field value will be deducted.

now we will write custom code which will read meta field and marked the product out of stock.

Does it make sense? Let me know if you have any questions?

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Hello GR_trading,

Thank you for your response and for proposing this custom solution. I am interested in your idea. Could your solution also combine the products based on their URLs? And could it be integrated so that when one variant from this “custom bundle” is sold, all the others are sold as well?

Many thanks,

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Hi @MagicMandalas ,

Happy to know you like the idea for bundle thing it’s more complicating but yes this is possible.

Request you to refer the below video which we create for one of our vendor, similar solution can be created to accommodate your requirement.

We can create a group of product which will share create a bundle and impact of one product will impact all in your case its metafield in video its inventory.

Let me know if you have more question, best would be if we could connect using WhatsApp to discuss more efficiently, details are in post footer.