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How to Change the Inventory Quantity For One Product

Last updated: September 01, 2024
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By Sam Nguyen

CEO Avada Commerce

In your online business, the inventory quantities changing session may changes based on how much products you want to do some actions on at once. If you want to change more that one product’s stock at once, you will have difficulty finding them at first and will have to filter or [search the products] in order to catch up with them. With only one product, that work is not needed but you still have to do some extra steps based on whether your wanted product has variants. Read our review on Best Shopify Inventory Management Apps

So today, I will show you How to change the inventory quantity for one product on Desktop, iPhone, and Android. The steps differ on whether your product has variants or not.

Step 1: Open product

Go to Products from your home page and click on the product to open it.

changing inventory quantities by product Shopify

Step 2: Choose quantity

In the chosen product’s details page, scroll down to the Inventory section and find the Available column. In that column, click on the quantity for a location.

changing inventory quantities by product Shopify

Step 3: Adjust quantity

After clicking on the quantity, you can enter the number that you want on the field or set a new one by both possitive and negative numbers.

changing inventory quantities by product Shopify

Step 4: Click Save

Click the blue Save button to save all the changes that you made.

To change the inventory quantity for one product without variants on iPhone

Step 1: Tap Products

Tap Products from your admin account logged in Shopify app.

Step 2: Choose product

In the Products page, choose the product that you want to change its inventory quantity by tapping on its title.

Step 3: Inventory

After that, tap on the Inventory button for further steps.

Step 4: Tap Location

Upon tapping Inventory, scroll down to find the Quantity section and tap on the location to adjust its inventory.

Step 5: Adjust or set

By adding both negative and possitve numbers, you can successfully adjust or set the chosen product’s inventory quantity.

To change the inventory quantity for one product without variants on Android

Step 1: Enter Products

From your Android device, enter the Products page by tapping on it.

changing inventory quantities by product Shopify

Step 2: Tap on product

In the Products page, you can easily choose that single product you want by tapping on its name displayed on a list.

changing inventory quantities by product Shopify

Step 3: Go to Inventory

After choosing the product that you want, tap to go to the Inventory page.

Inventory

Step 4: Choose location

In this step, you will have to choose the location that you want to make changes on. Scroll down to the Quantity section to find and tap on the location.

changing inventory quantities by product Shopify

Step 5: Inventory quantity changing

This is the step that you can directly change your chosen product’s inventory quantity. Adjust or set them up using positive or negative numbers.

changing inventory quantities by product Shopify

How to change the inventory quantity for one product with variants

To change the inventory quantity for one product with variants on Desktop

Step 1: Go to Products

Open the product that you want by clicking on it from the Products page.

Go to

Step 2: Edit quantities for variants

In the situation that your chosen product have variants and you want to edit quantities for all of the variants, scroll down to the Variants section, click on the Edit variants button and choose the Edit quantities option on its drop down menu.

Edit variants

Otherwise, if there is a specific variant that you want to only make changes on it, click on the checkbox next to the variant’s title and click on the Actions button, then choose Edit quantities.

Specific variant

Step 3: Choose a location

Click on a location to choose it for your action.

Step 4: Enter quantity

Enter a number that reflects your wanted quantity. Click on the Apply to all button in multiple products situation, or enter the number for each variant to be specific.

Step 5: Save changes

Save your action by clicking on the Save button.

To change the inventory quantity for one product with variants on iPhone

Step 1: Choose Products

From your iPhone, after logging into your Shopify store owner account in the Shopify app, tap on the Products button to enter its page.

Step 2: Tap a product

Because you only need to change the inventory of only one product, so that all you have to do is to tap on its title.

Step 3: Variant selector

In the product’s details page, tap on the variant selector and tap on the specific variant that you want to change its stock.

Step 4: Tap Inventory

Tap on the Inventory button for more information about the further steps.

Step 5: Choose one location

Upon entering the Inventory page, scroll down to the Quantity section and tap on one location that you want to adjust its inventory quatity.

Step 6: Inventory updating

Update the inventory quantity by using both possitive and negative numbers to adjust the product’s stock.

To change the inventory quantity for one product with variants on Android

Step 1: Tap on Products

From your Android device that your logged into your Shopify admin account with, tap on Products to go to its page.

Tap on

Step 2: Choose wanted product

In the Products page, tap to choose the product that you want to change its stock by tapping on its name as displayed in a list.

Choose product

Step 3: The variant selector

After entering the product’s details page, scroll down to the variant selector to tap on it, then tap the variant that you would like to change its inventory quantity.

Step 4: Tap Inventory

Tap on the Inventory choice for more options about the chosen product’s inventory quantity changing.

Inventory

Step 5: In the Quantity section

From the Quantity section, adjust the inventory of a location by tapping on that location’s title.

Quantity section

Step 6: Adjusting

Adjust your inventory quantity. You can even set up a new one. By using both negative and possitive numbers which are all allowed, you can easily complete your action.

Adjusting

Conclusion

In today’s tutorial, I introduced you How to change the inventory quantity for one product on Shopify. I hope this tutorial will be helpful for you and your online business.

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Sam Nguyen is the CEO and founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore. He is an expert on the Shopify e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Sam loves talking about e-commerce and he aims to help over a million online businesses grow and thrive.

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