What are Warehouses?
When Quivers expanded from Consumer Pages to Marketplaces, we found our valued Merchants wanting to know the availability of Products. For example, you may have a Marketplace that only you as the Merchant fulfill orders for, and another Marketplace set up where only your Fulfillers fulfill orders.
In the Marketplace you fulfill directly, you will always know when your products are out of stock. In your Marketplaces that are fulfilled by your Fulfiller network, the same products that may be out of stock for you may still be available to be fulfilled by your fulfillers. We have created Warehouses so that you can have your products available in one Marketplace and not the other
How to View and Update Inventory
1. Navigate to "Inventory" in the left-hand rail of your Quivers Admin Panel
*Note: all products catalogs come with a default warehouse with a stock level of one. You can leave this as is, edit the warehouse, or create your own.
2. To edit your Warehouse Stock Levels, click on the number box under the Warehouse you would like to update. Fill out the input with the desired stock level for that product. The warehouse must contain at least one level of stock.
*Note: If the stock level is set to "0" the buy button will be disabled and "Out of Stock" will display with your product.
1. Navigate to "Inventory" in the left-hand rail of your Quivers Admin Panel.
2. Click the blue "Add Warehouse" button in the upper right-hand corner
3. This will open a pop-up (as seen below); you will need to fill out the following information:
Name Input - the Name of your Warehouse
Live Inventory Toggle - when enabled, Live Inventory will dynamically update your inventory stock levels as items are purchased, cancelled or fulfilled. The stock level for an item will decrease when an order is placed by the quantity that was purchased. If the item is cancelled, or it is fulfilled by a fulfiller, this decrease will be reversed. This will also enable an option "Return to Stock" when processing a refund, which will also reverse the original decrease.
Default Stock Amount Input - the default amount of stock for each item in the newly created warehouse.
Minimum Stock Amount Input - the warehouse must contain this level of stock otherwise the buy button will be disabled. Leave blank if you want your products to always be available regardless of stock.
Override Storefront Return Address Toggle - allows you to set a custom Return Address for the warehouse
How to Edit a Warehouse
1. To edit your Warehouse, click on the Warehouse name above the stock level in the Inventory panel.
2. This will open the pop-up window seen when creating the warehouse; all inputs can then be edited for that specific warehouse
Edit View Settings of Inventory
1. To change the catalogue details you would like to see, click on the blue Gear to the right of the search bar to open your Warehouse Settings
2. Choose the Item Details you would like to see by clicking the box next to the item and then click the blue "Save Settings" button to save
Assign a Storefront (Marketplace) to a Warehouse
1. Expand the "Marketplaces" item in the left-hand rail navigation, then click on "Storefronts"
2. Click on the blue pencil icon next to the Storefront you wish to assign a Warehouse to
3. Once the Storefront settings load, click the checkbox next to the Warehouse name under "Warehouses" to assign that Warehouse to this specific storefront
To add inventory to Quivers, all you need is a spreadsheet (in CSV format) which contains a column for UPC code and a column for "stock." The spreadsheet may include other columns, however, it is important that at least those two exist within the header of the columns on your spreadsheet.
Import Inventory
1. Navigate to the "Inventory" section of your admin panel in the left-hand rail
2. Ensure your CSV file is ready to go with a column for "UPC" and a column "Stock" respectively
3. Click the blue "Import" button in the upper right-hand corner
4. Select your CSV file once the pop-up window opens
5. Click the blue "Upload" button once the file has been selected
6. Remain on the screen until the status bar states that the upload has been completed
Export Inventory
1. Navigate to the "Inventory" section of your admin panel in the left-hand rail
2. Click the blue "Export" button in the upper right-hand corner
3. A progress bar will appear; be sure to stay on the screen until the export is complete
4. Once fully exported, the file will automatically download to your browser