Inventory
Vendure includes features to help manage your stock levels, stock allocations and back orders. The basic purpose is to help you keep track of how many of a given ProductVariant you have available to sell.
Stock control is enabled globally via the Global Settings:
It can be disabled if, for example, you manage your stock with a separate inventory management system and synchronize stock levels into Vendure automatically. The setting can also be overridden at the individual ProductVariant level.
Stock Locations
Vendure uses the concept of StockLocations to represent the physical locations where stock is stored. This could be a warehouse, a retail store, or any other location. If you do not have multiple stock locations, then you can simply use the default location which is created automatically.
Selecting a stock location
When you have multiple stock locations set up, you need a way to determine which location to use when querying stock levels and when allocating stock to orders. This is handled by the StockLocationStrategy. This strategy exposes a number of methods which are used to determine which location (or locations) to use when:
- querying stock levels (
getAvailableStock) - allocating stock to orders (
forAllocation) - releasing stock from orders (
forRelease) - creating sales upon fulfillment (
forSale) - returning items to stock upon cancellation (
forCancellation)
The default strategy is the DefaultStockLocationStrategy, which simply uses the default location for all of the above methods. This is suitable for all cases where there is just a single stock location.
If you have multiple stock locations, you'll need to implement a custom strategy which uses custom logic to determine which stock location to use. For instance, you could:
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