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inventory quantity without tracker in Shopify Product CSV

What this means

A variant row has a value in Variant Inventory Qty, but Variant Inventory Tracker is blank.

Why it matters before Shopify import

Shopify can interpret stock tracking differently from what the merchant intended. The quantity may look deliberate in the CSV while Shopify is not actually set to track that stock.

How to fix it in the CSV

When you want Shopify to track inventory for the variant, set Variant Inventory Tracker to shopify. If the quantity is not intentional, clear the quantity field instead.

Example

Variant Inventory QtyVariant Inventory Tracker
12

The safer corrected value is usually Variant Inventory Tracker = shopify.

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