Reserve a minimum stock level to ensure you don't sell more products than can be delivered. This is useful when inventory counts are inaccurate or when your eCom store is connected to Lightspeed Retail. Here, you can make sure that your floor model doesn't sell out online.

When adding a minimum stock level, customers will be unable to purchase products that bring the stock level below this number. When stock level is equal to the minimum quantity, the stock level will be colored red to notify back office users. This setting is ignored when:

• Allow backorders is enabled. For more information about backorders, click here.
• Track the inventory is disabled. For more information about inventory tracking, click here.

Setting the default minimum quantity for new products

By default, the minimum quantity for new products is 0. To change it:

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
2. Click Workflow located in the Store Settings column.
3. Enter the a number in the field labeled Minimum quantity for new products, located in the section titled INVENTORY.
4. Click Save.

Add a minimum quantity to a product variant 

Manually 

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Products.
2. Open a product's settings by clicking the product title.
3. Scroll down to the INVENTORY & VARIANTS section and open a variant's settings by clicking on the variant title.
4. Scroll down to the INVENTORY section and add a number in the field labeled Minimum quantity.
5. Click Save.

Bulk action

Bulk actions are currently unavailable for eCom stores connected to a Retail point of sale. Instead, add inventory quantities manually or via import.

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Products.
   1. For variants of one product: Open the product settings by clicking the product title. Scroll down to the INVENTORY & VARIANTS section.
   2. For variants of many products: In the sidebar on the left hand side of the screen, click Inventory.
2. Enable the checkboxes beside the variants you want to modify. For all variants on the page, enable the checkbox in the top left of the table.
3. Click the item(s) selected button and click Edit.
4. Enable the checkbox beside Inventory.
5. Answer the question Are all the values the same by selecting either Yes or No from the dropdown menu.
6. Click Next.
7. Enter the minimum quantity for each variant on the screen.
8. Click Save.

Import

When importing products, include a column called Stock_Min. For each product add a numeric value for the minimum quantity.

Editing product minimum quantity by importing

1. Create a product export in Tools > Exports.
2. Create a seperate import file that is different from your export file in Google Sheets or other spreadsheet software. Copy these column titles into your import file:
   

   Internal_ID

   Internal_Variant_ID

   XX_Title_Short

   Stock_Min

3. Copy all the internal IDs and product titles from your product export and paste them in your import file. Add the minimum quantity each product.
4. Import the spreadsheet in Tools > Imports.

Read Editing products through import for complete instructions.

Setting minimum quantity for new products

1. Create an import file in Google Sheets or other spreadsheet software. You can add any columns you need, these are the minimum required columns:
   

   XX_Title_Short

   Stock_Min

2. Import the spreadsheet in Tools > Imports.

Read Importing new products for complete instructions.