We were working with one of our EZ Inventory customers recently and ran into an issue where their inventory feed contains inventory data for all their warehouses.

This wouldn't have been an issue if their store is enabled for multi-location inventory, but Shopify hasn't released this feature yet to merchants. It's currently only available for test/development stores.

In their specific case, they basically wanted to sync the inventory only from one of those warehouses in their feed with their Shopify …

We've recently received a feature request from one of our EZ Inventory customers to provide a different way of updating inventory quantities in his Shopify store.

Originally, our app simply set/replaced the variant quantity in Shopify with what's provided in the inventory feed. But our customer needed a way to basically add to his Shopify inventory based on the data provided in his data feed.

We can definitely see the different use cases for this, such as if the store …

EZ Inventory now supports web feeds!

This new functionality allows you to pull your data feeds from a website URL provided by your supplier and use that data to sync the inventory in your Shopify store. The website can use either HTTP or HTTPS. Basic authentication is supported as well for those websites that require it.

The other nice thing about being able to use web feeds is it makes it possible to pull your inventory data from third-party data …

As your Shopify store grows, one of the things that really becomes a challenge is managing your inventory. Without proper inventory management, you could easily lose out on sales when your Shopify store shows "out of stock" for an item you actually have on hand. The opposite could also happen where you oversell an item you no longer have in stock, which could then lead to angry customers and support headaches.

Manually updating your inventory level in the Shopify Admin …