Can you automate inventory management with Shopify Flow?
Quick Answer: Yes. Shopify Flow automates inventory management with triggers like "Inventory quantity changed" and conditions like "quantity < 10." Common automations include low-stock alerts, auto-hiding out-of-stock products, reorder notifications, and tagging products by stock level. Available on Shopify plan ($79/month) and above.
Automating Inventory Management with Shopify Flow
Shopify Flow provides several inventory-specific triggers and actions for automating stock management. As of April 2026, these are available on Shopify ($79/month), Advanced, and Plus plans.
Inventory Triggers
- Inventory quantity changed — Fires when stock level changes for any variant
- Product added to store — When a new product is published
- Order created — Allows inventory checks alongside order processing
Inventory Automation Examples
Low-Stock Alert
- Trigger: Inventory quantity changed
- Condition: Inventory quantity is less than 10
- Action: Send email to [email protected] with product name, SKU, and current quantity
Auto-Hide Out-of-Stock Products
- Trigger: Inventory quantity changed
- Condition: Inventory quantity equals 0
- Action: Unpublish product from online store
Auto-Republish Restocked Products
- Trigger: Inventory quantity changed
- Condition: Inventory quantity is greater than 0 AND product is unpublished
- Action: Publish product to online store
Tag Products by Stock Level
- Trigger: Inventory quantity changed
- Conditions and actions:
- If quantity < 5: Add tag "critical-stock"
- If quantity 5-20: Add tag "low-stock"
- If quantity > 20: Remove tags "critical-stock" and "low-stock"
Reorder Point Notification
- Trigger: Inventory quantity changed
- Condition: Inventory quantity is less than reorder point (stored in product metafield)
- Action: Create a draft order for the supplier with reorder quantity
- Action: Send Slack notification to #inventory channel
Multi-Location Inventory
For stores with multiple locations (warehouses, retail stores), Flow can route inventory actions based on location:
- Transfer stock between locations when one falls below threshold
- Route orders to the nearest fulfillment location based on customer shipping address
- Alert specific warehouse managers based on which location triggered the low-stock event
Limitations
- Shopify Flow cannot modify inventory quantities directly (it can tag, notify, and trigger, but not adjust stock counts)
- For automated purchase order creation, a third-party inventory app (Stocky, Inventory Planner) connected to Flow is needed
- Flow processes events within seconds but cannot batch multiple inventory changes into a single workflow run
- Inventory triggers fire per-variant, not per-product (a product with 10 variants may trigger 10 separate workflow runs)
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