variant.inventory_quantity not returning total available inventory among locations

Store Design
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I was encountering an issue with discrepancies in {{ variant.inventory_quantity }} isn’t displaying the total amount of inventory among my stores.

I discovered that while {{ variant.inventory_quantity }} is supposed to return the total available inventory it appears to be only returning the highest inventory value at any 1 store…So if I have 6 stores with “1” unit and 1 store with “2" units, rather than showing a total of “8”, it is only rendering the “2"

In this case, one location has 3 units, and that is the value showing instead of “10”. If I set another random location to have something like “18” then 18 is what shows, as it is now the highest number.

Highest value 3 is what is rendered instead of total: 10
Highest value 3 is what is rendered instead of total: 10907×735 40.3 KB

Is this a bug, or is there some setting that needs to be checked to ensure I get the aggregate inventory amount?

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Not seeing this in my store.

Is it the standard “Inventory status” block? Looks different…

Are all locations set to fulfil – ship, etc?

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Only 1 location, which is the default location, is set to fulfill via shipping and pickup in store.

The other locations are all set only to fulfill via pickup in store. Shopify Support confirmed they believe liquid should be rendering the total available inventory via the {{ variant.inventory_quantity }} and escalated this issue to a higher tier. I’ll share any results here once that resolves.

It is not the standard block, but it does use the standard {{ variant.inventory_quantity }} liquid tag to populate that number.