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How to track inventory only for certain variants?

Question

How to disable inventory tracking only for certain variant products?

Setup

  • Retail POS for Mac and PC  

Answer

You can disable Track Inventory for certain variant products only via CSV.

  1. Navigate to Catalog -> Products
  2. Click Export List...
  3. In the exported CSV file, look for the inventory current inventory columns and delete these
  4. Then look for the column heading track_inventory and edit the number to be 0 for the product variants you want to disable tracking for and 1 for the variants that should track inventory
  5. Save the CSV file
  6. Navigate back to Catalog -> Products
  7. Click Import
  8. Drag and drop or browse the saved CSV file 
  9. Click Continue with Import

Additional Information

  • Any edits made to the Track Inventory option via the Edit Product page in Retail POS will alter inventory tracking of all the variants for that product

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