Feature Request: Add inventoryPolicy to ProductVariant in Storefront GraphQL API

Hydrogen and Storefront APIs
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The Storefront API currently exposes these inventory-related fields on ProductVariant:

  • availableForSale
  • currentlyNotInStock
  • quantityAvailable

However, it’s missing inventoryPolicy, which is available in the Admin API. This field determines whether a variant allows “Continue selling when out of stock” (CONTINUE) or stops at zero inventory (DENY).

Why this is needed:

Without inventoryPolicy, there’s no way to properly fetch available variant quantities on the storefront.

For example, if a variant has quantityAvailable = 3 and a customer tries to add 5 units:

  • If inventoryPolicy = DENY, this should be prevented or at least warned
  • If inventoryPolicy = CONTINUE, this should be allowed

Currently, there is no way to distinguish between these cases. We can see the quantity available, but not whether the variant allows overselling.

Request:

Could you please expose inventoryPolicy on ProductVariant ? Alternatively, exposing a specific boolean flag like continueSellingWhenOutOfStock would achieve the same goal.

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Bumping this. We need to validate requested quantities on the storefront, and without knowing the inventory policy we can’t tell whether a variant actually has stock limits or allows overselling. Anyone else running into this?

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Hey @Anton- thanks for the Feature Request. I’ve gone ahead and submitted this internally. The more a specific feature is requested by our merchants and partners, the more likely it is to be considered for future development by our product teams so hopefully this is something that can be looked at for future releases.

As a workaround, you could use an App Proxy and fetch inventoryPolicy from the Admin API’s ProductVariant server-side and combine it with your Storefront API data.

Thanks for flagging this!

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