What is transfer ?

• Transfers are used to record the incoming inventory in your store after you confirm your purchase order.
• i.e. showing incoming products already in store. They will update the current stock after you receive the transfers.

This article will cover how to show incoming products in your store and let customer purchase. The aim is to allow add to cart for product before you have actual inventory showing product available date in product detail page.

Requirement :

You need to enable inventory tracking to automatically update inventory.  To add product to transfer you need to make sure the product’s inventory is tracked.

Create a transfer :

Navigate to Shopify backend then products and under product, you will see transfers. Add transfer, select products that are incoming. Only the products whose inventory is tracked will be shown on product browse. Select products and on variant level you can add incoming quantity. And add date and supplier (if applied to you). This date is what we are going to show in product detail page.

Show transfer in product detail page :

We are showing as “will not available until {Date}” under product add to cart button. For this follow the below code snippet.

Pass transfer value to cart / Checkout & Order confirmation email

Take transfer date value along with add to cart.

<input id="" disabled="disabled" name="properties[incoming]" type="hidden" value="{{ variant.next_incoming_date | date: "%a, %b %d, %y" }} />

Will not available until `{{ variant.next_incoming_date | date: "%a, %b %d, %y" }}`

Show product incoming date in Cart page & Checkout

`{{ item.varint.next_incoming_date | date: “%a, %b %d, %y” }}`

Show product incoming date in Order confirmation email
`{{ item.varint.next_incoming_date | date: “%a, %b %d, %y” }}`

Suman K.C

eCommerce Developer, writes about stuff related to eCommerce development. Currently based in Kathmandu, loves reading about startups & new technology, introvert nature, fond of traveling & playing futsal.

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