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You can now specify an "Adjustment Reason" from a list of reasons when syncing/updating Shopify inventory quantities using EZ Inventory.
The following adjustment reasons are available in the app:
| Display Name | API Value | Description | |
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| Correction | correction |
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| Count | cycle_count_available |
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| Received | received |
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A new inventory update type "Set On Hand Qty" has been added to EZ Inventory. This allows you to set/overwrite the "on hand" quantities of variants in Shopify by location.
For a long time, we've only supported updating the "Available" quantity as users of our app tend to manage inventory outside of Shopify (their "source of truth") and they just want to make sure the "Available" quantity in Shopify is up to date with their external systems so they …
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We've added a new "Encoding" setting to EZ Inventory when configuring the source data for CSV inventory feeds.
In the past, we've only supported UTF-8 character set/encoding as the vast majorify of data feeds we've seen are UTF-8 encoded, and UTF-8 encoding will also often work with other encodings.
However, we've seen a few cases where the data feeds are encoded using ISO-8859 and have column names containing accented characters which can't be read properly with UTF-8, so this could …
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We've pushed an update to EZ Inventory's "Activity Log Details" page to show a summary count of items by update status (e.g. success, failure, skipped, removed).
You can also find a link on this page that allows you to quickly download a list of items that exist in the source data/inventory feed, but weren't found in Shopify.
In most cases, a supplier feed will contain a lot more items that the merchants carry in their store, so the merchants …
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We're excited to announce a new feature in EZ Inventory that helps you manage your inventory in Shopify more efficiently. In the Data Feed settings, under Field Mapping > Additional Options, you'll find a new setting called "Set quantity of removed items to 0".
Note that this option is only shown when the "Inventory Update Type" is set to "Set Available Qty" (i.e. when overwriting the available quantity in Shopify).
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