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What Are Inventory Buffers?

How to change Supplier inventory buffers.

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Written by Carro Support
Updated over 10 months ago

To avoid overselling, there is a default stock buffer of 5 units for all partnerships.

Carro monitors the supplier's inventory levels every hour and marks products as "out of stock" on the retailer's site when the inventory falls to 5 units.

Suppliers can control (increase or decrease) their account's stock buffer from the supplier settings tab - directions here.

NOTE: Lowering the buffer does increase the risk of overselling - Shopify limits Carro to sync inventory between partners to once per hour. If it's a popular item, it could oversell within that 60-minute time frame.

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