Manage stock for many variants at once in EditEngine, the Shopify bulk editor: activate or deactivate stock at a location, set or adjust quantities, or turn inventory tracking on or off — all in one run.

Inventory Management is a variant-level field. The action runs once per matched variant, so a product with three variants gets three inventory updates.

Tracking must be on to set or adjust quantities. If a variant has tracking off, it'll be skipped by Set quantity / Adjust quantity. Run Enable/Disable tracking first, then come back and set the numbers.

Step 1: Pick the Inventory Management field

In the Configure Product Edits panel, click Select Field. It's the button under Field to edit.

The Configure Product Edits panel with the Select Field button outlined

The Select Field modal opens. Inventory Management lives under Variant Fields — search for it or scroll down.

The Select Field modal with Inventory Management outlined under Variant Fields

Step 2: Grant inventory access (first time only)

The first time you use Inventory Management on a store, EditEngine asks for two extra Shopify permissions: locations (to read your store locations) and write_inventory (to change stock). Click Request permissions.

The Inventory management permission gate showing locations and write_inventory badges, with Request permissions outlined

Shopify shows a confirmation dialog. Click Update. Once granted, the permission gate is replaced by the action form. You won't see this gate again on the same store.

Step 3: Choose what to do

The Action dropdown has five options:

Activate at location — make a variant's inventory live at a specific location. Useful when adding a new warehouse and you want existing variants to start stocking there.
Deactivate at location — remove a variant from a location entirely. Quantities at that location go away.
Set quantity — overwrite the on-hand count at a location with a specific number (e.g. set every variant to 100).
Adjust quantity — change the on-hand count by a delta (e.g. add 5 to every variant, or subtract 10).
Enable/Disable tracking — turn Shopify inventory tracking on or off for the matched variants. Tracking off means Shopify stops counting stock for that variant.

The form below the Action dropdown changes based on what you pick.

Step 4: Fill in the action form

Activate at location

Pick a Location from your store's locations. Optionally enter an Initial available number — the starting on-hand count when the variant becomes active there. Leave blank to start at 0.

Activate at location selected, blr warehourse picked, Initial available set to 10

In this example, every matched variant becomes active at blr warehourse with 10 units in stock.

Deactivate at location

Pick the Location. No quantity input — deactivation removes the variant from that location.

Heads up: deactivating loses the on-hand quantity at that location. If you want to keep the count and just stop selling, use the variant's status instead.

Set quantity

Pick the Location and type a Quantity. Every matched variant gets that exact on-hand count at that location.

Set quantity selected, blr warehourse picked, Quantity 50, with the tracking-required note visible

The blue note reminds you: variants with tracking disabled will be skipped. Run Enable/Disable tracking with Enable tracking first if needed.

Adjust quantity

Pick the Location and type a Delta. Positive numbers add stock, negative numbers subtract. So 5 adds 5 units to every matched variant, -5 removes 5.

Adjust quantity selected, blr warehourse picked, Delta -5, with the tracking-required note visible

Same tracking caveat applies — variants without tracking are skipped.

Enable/Disable tracking

No location needed. Pick Enable tracking to start counting stock, or Disable tracking to stop.

Enable/Disable tracking selected, Tracking status set to Disable tracking, with a yellow warning about removing inventory data

Warning: disabling tracking removes all inventory quantity data for the affected variants. Shopify will treat them as always-in-stock — you can't get the numbers back from EditEngine after that. Only use this for products where stock counting doesn't apply (digital downloads, made-to-order, services).

Step 5: Run it

Confirm your products are filtered correctly using the Edit Preview on the right, then click Start Bulk Edit Now. Or click Schedule Edit to queue it for later.

After the run

Inventory edits cannot be reverted with one-click Undo the way price edits can. The History page lets you re-open a past edit as a prefilled form so you can manually reverse it (e.g. change -5 to +5 to undo an adjustment), but Set quantity has no automatic inverse — you'd have to know the previous numbers.
Activate ↔ Deactivate are inverses of each other and can be undone by re-running the opposite action at the same location.
Re-running the same Adjust isn't a no-op — -5 re-run subtracts another 5, not zero. Adjust is cumulative.
For Set quantity / Adjust quantity, variants with tracking off are silently skipped (the rest still process). If something didn't change, check tracking first.