Pre-sell inventory

Inventory allocations allow you to start selling on your sales channels before inventory arrives at the warehouse. It is a great solution to avoid side effects of having several different Shopify locations such as duplicated shipping fees or double accounting of available quantities.

Pre-sell inventory

Steps

1. From your Bigblue admin, go to Inventory > Inventory allocations.
2. Click Create allocation.
3. Enter an allocation name. This name is displayed on the inventory overview to help you identifying live allocations.
4. Select the warehouse that should be used as reference for available inventory. If you only have one warehouse, it will be auto-selected.
5. Select the Pre-sell inventory purpose in the Purpose section.
6. Select the auto-adjustment rule that best match your strategy.
7. In the Sales channels section, select the sales channel you want to start pre-selling on.
8. In the Products section, configure the affected products:
   1. Add your products to the allocation.
   2. Set the allocated quantity for each product.
   3. Optional: You can import products in bulk with a CSV file. The headers of your file must be BigblueProductSKU and Quantity.
9. Click Save.

Reserve and pre-sell inventory at the same time

Allocations allow you to override inventory values pushed to your store, and the purpose you choose doesn’t force you to respect any specific rule regarding quantity. You can therefore pre-sell and reserve at the same time. Pre-sold quantities will be pushed to your sales channels and will be reserved as soon as inventory arrives.

Steps

1. From your Bigblue admin, go to Inventory > Inventory allocations.
2. Click Create allocation.
3. Enter an allocation name. This name is displayed on the inventory overview to help you identifying live allocations.
4. Select the warehouse that should be used as reference for available inventory. If you only have one warehouse, it will be auto-selected.
5. Select the Reserve inventory purpose in the Purpose section.
6. Select the auto-adjustment rule that best match your strategy.
7. In the Sales channels section, select the sales channel you pre-sell and reserve for.
8. In the Products section, configure the affected products:
   1. Add your products to the allocation.
   2. Set the allocated quantity for each product. In this case, set positive quantities even though there is zero inventory.
   3. Optional: You can import products in bulk with a CSV file. The headers of your file must be BigblueProductSKU and Quantity.
9. Click Save.