Shopify Flows? Async and Query a product?

Shopify Flow
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Hey,

I had two questions?

  1. Are shopify flows run async?
  2. Can you query a variant inventory level (not related to an order) and return available quantity?
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Hi @ChrisBradley

  1. Shopify flow is executed asynchronously
  2. The following two APIs can obtain the inventory of products

inventoryLevel - GraphQL Admin

product - GraphQL Admin

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Thanks @kyle_liu

I am doing on orderCreated Flow, so dont have access to inventory of product (due to the nature of the call), so just whipping up a webhook to manage inventory depreciation.

dont happen to know if it times out? my server is returning in 1second from the call (was not build for this purpose)

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  1. Yes, Shopify Flows run asynchronously by default
  2. query a variant inventory level (not related to an order) you could use admin graqhlql to do this
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you create create two actions ， and that one you can use get product variant data.

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in this response , you can get inventoryQuantity field

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As Eric said, you can retrieve inventory data through the flow. If it still doesn’t meet your logic requirements, you can handle the idempotency logic yourself. Shopify webhooks have a retry mechanism.

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hey @Eric_Han

Updated as I have figure it out, so its an advanced query, IE:

sku:XYZ

then the following step allows you to see the specific keys

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If you are using order created, then you should not need a query. Instead look at:
order / lineItems / variant / inventoryItem / inventoryLevels

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@paul_n

Thanks, the variant isnt related to the order so I need to query it seperately (its a gift with purchase, so adding to order but need to make sure there is stock first)