Shopify stockout solution
Warehouse Out of Stock Doesn't Have to Mean Online Out of Stock
- Shopify warehouse out of stock while a store has inventory
- Help prevent avoidable online stockouts on eligible products
- Source inventory from another location when an order converts
- Physical Shopify inventory stays assigned to its actual location
A Warehouse Stockout Doesn't Mean You Have No Inventory
- Online fulfillment warehouse
- 0 units
- Store A
- 4 units
- Store B
- 3 units
- Protected store inventory
- 2 units per location
- Eligible Virtual Inventory
- 3 units
Two units stay protected at each store; the remaining eligible units can support online demand.
What happens after conversion
- 1Customer purchases
- 2Warehouse shortage detected
- 3FC finds eligible source inventory
- 4Required units allocated
- 5Source inventory committed
- 6Auto Transfer created
- 7Inventory moves
- 8Warehouse receives
- 9Order fulfilled
The solution is not simply showing store inventory online. When a qualifying order creates a shortage, FC Collects creates an auto transfer for each enabled Virtual Inventory item — connecting the sale to the source inventory and the transfer needed to bring it into fulfillment.
Find the Inventory Before the Next Stockout
FC Collects analyzes inventory across your Shopify locations and shows how many eligible units are not enabled, which locations hold them, which products and variants represent the opportunity, and the potential retail value involved. Merchants can review that inventory and decide whether it should become available before future online demand reaches the fulfillment warehouse. It is an opportunity analysis, not guaranteed revenue.
See how store inventory supported online demandWhy merchants lose these sales today
Fulfillment strategy can limit available inventory
When online availability is tied to a designated fulfillment location, inventory held at other stores cannot support online demand — even though you already own it.
Manual checking does not scale
Looking up another location per order is slow and easy to miss during peak demand.
Retail needs protecting
Merchants hesitate to expose store stock because they cannot control how much is used — protected floors solve that.
Exceptions get lost
When a unit truly cannot be sourced, the case needs a workflow, not an email thread.
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Recover sales from inventory you already own
Keep eligible products available when approved inventory exists elsewhere, while retail stays stocked and Shopify counts stay accurate.