How-To Guides — Alfred Purchase Orders for Shopify

How-To Guides

Step-by-step workflows for the most common inventory management tasks in your Shopify store. Each guide walks you through the full process with multiple approaches when available.

Create a Purchase Order

Multiple ways to create purchase orders in Alfred — algorithmic plans, hand-picked planning with full decision-support data, forecasting, or direct entry. Pick the approach that fits the decision.

3 approaches · 24 steps

Identify Low-Performing & Slow-Moving Products

Use Alfred's product performance frameworks to find deadstock, slow movers, and underperformers in your Shopify store's inventory.

2 approaches · 12 steps

Identify Products About to Stock Out

Two approaches to finding which Shopify products will run out of inventory soon — detailed forecasting or a quick snapshot view.

2 approaches · 11 steps

Receive Inventory & Update Shopify

Step-by-step guide to receiving a purchase order or an ad-hoc shipment in Alfred, synced directly to Shopify.

2 approaches · 15 steps

Run a Stocktake (choose the right scope)

Count stock in Alfred and correct Shopify — choosing the count scope that decides which products can be written down.

3 approaches · 18 steps

Record an Inventory Adjustment

Log shrinkage, damage or a correction in Alfred without running a count — pushed straight to Shopify and valued at cost.

1 approach · 7 steps

Plan for Seasonal Demand

Analyze sales trends, project seasonal demand with growth factors, and build purchase plans to prepare for peak periods.

1 approach · 8 steps

Set up Min/Max Thresholds

Configure per-variant minimum and target inventory levels at a location so Alfred can recommend reorders and inter-location rebalances by exception.

3 approaches · 17 steps

Balance Stock across Locations

Find transfer opportunities from locations with excess stock to locations below their minimum, then bulk-create draft transfers in one pass.

1 approach · 10 steps

Create and Receive a Stock Transfer End-to-End

Walk a transfer from draft creation through final received shipment, including a multi-shipment example for transfers that ship in stages.

2 approaches · 15 steps

Stocktake a Product at a New Location

Count and submit inventory at a location where Shopify shows the product as untracked. Alfred handles activation automatically.

1 approach · 6 steps

Replenish Stable Products by Exception

Use Purchase Thresholds plus the Min/Max Replenishment plan type to manage stable, predictable products on a 'reorder when below the trigger' rule.

1 approach · 9 steps

Export Your Data From Stocky Before It Shuts Down

Move your Stocky data into Alfred before the August 31, 2026 shutdown — connect Stocky and import suppliers, purchase orders, and supplied products directly over its API, then export by hand only what the API can't reach. Includes the two mistakes that cost merchants data they could have kept.

3 approaches · 24 steps