How-To Guide
Record an Inventory Adjustment
An adjustment states the CHANGE, not the resulting quantity. Use it when you already know what happened — a broken case, a theft, a miscount you can quantify — and don't need to count the shelf. Nothing is ever written down for being absent from an adjustment.
Record an adjustment
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Go to Stocktakes & Adjustments and click 'Perform Adjustment'.
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Choose the location the change applies to.
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Add the affected products by scan, search or CSV.
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Enter an increment (stock found) or a decrement (stock lost) per line. This is the change, not the new total.
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Add a note explaining the adjustment — it stays with the session.
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At Review & Submit, check Net Adjustment and Adjustment Value per line, and the Net Adjustment Value summary.
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Submit to push the changes to Shopify.
Pro Tips
- 💡If you find yourself entering the resulting quantity rather than the change, you want a stocktake, not an adjustment.
- 💡The Adjustment Value column prices each change at Shopify cost — it is the fastest way to see whether a shrinkage event is material.
- 💡Adjustments never zero anything you didn't list, so they are the safe choice when you only know about a few specific products.