Warehouse Inventory on Frontend

Online Store and Theme Development
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I think I already know the answer here, but is there a way to query individual warehouse availability for products on the frontend without using Admin API or expose API keys/secrets?

We have a client that is wanting to add a QTY selector to PDPs, but the problem is that they can’t ship across country lines (US/CA), but have inventory for single products in both locations (two warehouses). If we query something like variant.inventory_quantity, I’ll get the count for both warehouses which is a poor experience when we only have 1 in stock in CA, but like 600 in the US. A Canadian user would add multiple just fine, get to checkout to find that they can only actually purchase 1…

Any ideas? I really wish we had like a variant.warehouses[0].inventory_quantity property or something…

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Without using the Admin API, the closest you could do would be store availabilities on the Storefront API, but this relies on the location being available for pickup - https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/2024-04/objects/ProductVariant#connection-storeavailability

Otherwise you’ll need to build an endpoint as such to be able to access the admin api and access inventory data by location.

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Could create variant metafields (or metaobject structure) containing inventory quantity for each location, and then use those entry points.

Should be possible to keep those hydrated with Shopify flow - otherwise third party apps like Mechanic and Arigato can do the trick.

Think I’ve done something similar in the past, but can’t remember the case.

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Regarding this, you could enable pickup for them to be available in the storefront API (I thought that object only contains true/false availability and not specific quantities? edit: that was the correspondig liquid object) and then use Functions (checkout blocks/buddy can do) to hide the pickup shipping methods.