Stocktake a Product at a New Location
If you stocktake a product at a location where Shopify hasn't yet activated the inventory item, Alfred now activates the location for you and sets the on-hand to your counted value as part of the submit. You don't need to pre-activate the location in Shopify Admin first.
Stocktake at a new location
RecommendedGo to Receiving & Stocktakes and click 'Stocktake'.
Pick the location you're counting at — including a new location where the product hasn't been tracked before.
Add the product using barcode scan, manual search, or CSV upload. The Prior On-Hand may show zero or blank for untracked items, which is expected.
Enter the actual on-hand count. This is the absolute count, not a delta — Alfred figures out the change for you.
Switch to the Review & Submit tab. Confirm the counted value looks right.
Click Submit to Shopify. For each untracked line, Alfred activates the inventory item at the location and sets it to your counted value in one push.
Pro Tips
- 💡If a product is already stocked at more than 100 locations, Alfred can't verify activation status and will ask you to activate the new location manually in Shopify Admin first, then retry the stocktake. This affects very large catalogs only.
- 💡Stocktake submissions are atomic — if any line fails (e.g., the over-100-location case), the rest still submit. Check the Review tab afterwards to see which lines were skipped and why.
- 💡For new-location rollouts, run a single stocktake covering everything that's actually present at the new location instead of one stocktake per product. It's faster to staff and easier to audit.