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Written by Sara Jaffer
Updated over 4 months ago

Products and variants are managed in your Shopify store. New products and updates to existing items download during the overnight sync and can be viewed in Inventory Planner’s variant catalog, where a sync can also be triggered on demand. Learn more about the variant catalog here.

All inventory-tracked items are synced, including those in the “Draft” and “Archived” statuses, although archived products are excluded from forecasting and purchasing workflows.

Variant properties

Below is a list of the fields relating to variants in Inventory Planner, along with the corresponding Shopify field, where applicable.

Inventory Planner field

Shopify field

Notes

Image

Variant image

Name

Product title / non-default variant title

You can search for an item using these details whenever you see the search bar at the top right of a screen.

Option sets, options

Variant options

As above

SKU

Variant SKU

As above

Barcode

Variant barcode

As above

Status

Product status:

  • Draft

  • Active

  • Archived

Archived variants are hidden from the Forecast and Purchase screens.

Brand

Product vendor

Appears as a filter within the Forecast and Purchase screens.

Collection

Product collection

Appears as a filter within the Forecast and Purchase screens.

Category

Product type

Appears as a filter within the Forecast and Purchase screens.

Published

Published

Discontinued

Configured in Inventory Planner in the variant catalog, and determines whether items can be added to purchase orders.

“False” by default.

Dropship only

Configured in Inventory Planner in the variant catalog, and determines whether items can be added to purchase orders.Configured by user.

“False” by default.

Lead time

Configured in Inventory Planner in the Purchase screen.

Days of stock

Configured in Inventory Planner in the Purchase screen.

Determining whether variants can be ordered

Inventory Planner considers several factors to determine if a variant is replenishable. Replenishable items are visible in the Forecast and Purchase screens and can be added to purchase orders.

For a variant to be considered replenishable, it must:

  • Be inventory tracked (items where the inventory quantity is not tracked in Shopify are not visible to Inventory Planner)

  • Have a status of “Active” or “Draft”

  • Not be “Discontinued”

  • Not be “Dropship only”

Note that a variant does not have to be published to be added to a purchase order.

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