Overview
Stock shows your inventory per location. For every variant it answers three questions:- How many units are at this location right now?
- How fast does it sell here, and when will it run out?
- How many units should you reorder, and when?
The first load of a large catalogue takes a few minutes. The page shows
Reading your inventory until the quantities arrive — refresh shortly.
The Stock table
Pick a location at the top of the table, or keep All locations (the default) to see every location at once. On All locations, rows are grouped by product and the most urgent product comes first.
Use Search stock to find a product and Sort by to change the order. The table shows up to 100 variants per view — the ones closest to running out.
Acting on selected rows
Tick rows to show two actions:- Create PO — turns the selected rows into a draft purchase order, using each row’s Reorder quantity, then opens it. The rows must be at one location and share one supplier; if not, a hint says why the button is off.
- Set reorder point — sets one reorder point for all selected rows.
Units on order
Units on sent purchase orders lower the suggested Reorder quantity, so you don’t order the same units twice. They do not change Runs out in — those units have not arrived yet.Velocity builds up from the day you start
Per-location sales history starts the day stock tracking is switched on. Shopify can’t tell Alius which location an old order came from, so the past can’t be filled in.- First days — a banner says Velocity is still building. The table compares on-hand quantities with your reorder points instead of showing a stockout date.
- Once orders come in — the table switches to the forecast: Per day, Runs out in and Reorder fill in.
Reorder settings (Pro / Max)
Click Reorder settings to tune each variant at each location:
The suggested Reorder quantity covers lead time plus coverage at the current sales pace, minus what you already have and what is already on order.
No lead time set here? Alius uses the supplier’s lead time, then the 7-day default.
Share stock (Pro / Max)
When the same product is short at one location and plentiful at another, the short row on the All locations view gets a Share stock action. It moves units from the other location, without leaving Alius.- Alius suggests how many units to move. It never takes the other location below its own reorder point.
- Alius checks the other location’s live quantity in Shopify first. If a sale happened in the meantime, Shopify refuses the move instead of overselling.
Share stock is an inventory adjustment between two locations. It is not a
Shopify transfer, so there is no “in transit” state.
Movement
Click Movement on the Stock page. This page compares your locations with each other, so it has no location switcher.
Sell-through is “units sold ÷ units you had”. A warehouse that sold 100 of 1,000 is doing worse than a shop that sold 20 of 25.
Dead stock needs 14 days of per-location history. Before that, every
product would look dead, so the section says how many days are still needed.
Stock alerts (Pro / Max)
Click Alerts on the Stock page to choose what Alius sends and where.Reorder alerts
Each message lists up to 10 variants, plus “N more”.
Purchase orders count. A variant fully covered by sent purchase orders is not alerted. A partly covered one is still alerted, with “N on order” in its line. A draft PO covers nothing.
Buttons. Each row with a supplier gets two buttons in Slack, Telegram and Discord Bot:
No spam: a variant is alerted at most once per day per location. After that, it stays quiet until it recovers — or gets worse (for example, from “below reorder point” to “out of stock”).
Weekly movement digest
Switch on Send the weekly movement digest to get one message every Monday:- units sitting at one location while another runs short, with a suggested transfer;
- products that have not sold anywhere.