Open plesoiucosmin opened 1 month ago
Batch updating location inventories and activate/deactivate inventories one by one complicate and slow down the process of synchronizing inventories per location. So adding bulk option for these operations will help us a lot to automate the stock update flow.
There need to be bulk methods that would take multiple products and assign them to an inventory location:
Currently there is a batch method that activates one product to multiple locations but not the other way around: multiple products in a single location: inventoryBulkToggleActivation
https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/2024-07/mutations/inventoryBulkToggleActivation
There does not seem to be a way to update/activate/deactivate a location inventories by using a bulkOperationRunMutation Operations to add bulk option:
Batch updating location inventories and activate/deactivate inventories one by one complicate and slow down the process of synchronizing inventories per location. So adding bulk option for these operations will help us a lot to automate the stock update flow.
Not having batch/bulk operations support in the GraphQL API for such common use cases is a MAJOR oversight from the technical/product team.
We are also affected by this shortsightedness of the Shopify team in our effort to build automated stock update flows with our suppliers with catalogs of hundreds of thousands of products.
https://community.shopify.com/c/graphql-basics-and/graphql-bulkoperation-to-update-inventory-quantities/td-p/2078327