Choose the right inventory layer
- Weekly Schedule Inventory: global simple stock, variant stock, and low-stock thresholds for regular products.
- Specific Date/Drop Inventory: per-occurrence product, variant, or category limits for a particular date.
- Product-specific blocks: prevent one regular product from being sold on a date without blocking the entire schedule.
Open a drop’s management sheet and choose Inventory, or open the Weekly Schedule sheet and select its Inventory tab.
How caps behave
The tightest effective remaining quantity controls storefront availability. A direct product or variant cap and a category cap can both apply. For recurring windows, bulk updates affect currently scheduled future occurrences; newly generated occurrences do not automatically inherit category caps.
What customers see
Customers see remaining availability, limited or sold-out states, and only the options with positive effective inventory. Low-stock alerts are a baker-facing dashboard concern and do not necessarily send an email for manual edits.
Common problems
- Stock looks unlimited: the product may use no tracking; set tracking to simple or variants when you need a quantity.
- A drop sold out while global stock remains: inspect the occurrence cap or category cap.
- A recurring series lost a category cap: review future occurrences after extending or regenerating the series.
- Restock demand is not tied to a date: product-only restock subscriptions are separate from occurrence-scoped subscriptions.
Next steps
Plan availability
Plan: Inventory controls for physical products and Planner are available on Free.
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