Big update: improved stock structure

We rolled out a big update to the way ShopLinkr processes stock. You will notice little of it, but it does make your stock history clearer and more reliable.

What stays the same?

Nothing changes about how your stock is displayed. You keep working with:

• Available stock
• Reserved stock
• Total stock

Reserving stock for new orders also still works the way you are used to.

What has changed?

The change is in when a stock change becomes visible in the stock history.

Previously

• When an order came in, you saw a change in the stock history straight away.
• This also happened for orders that were still open or were changed later.

Now

• Stock is still reserved for a new order.
• At that moment you do not see a change in the stock history yet.
• Only when an order is actually processed does the stock change appear in the history.

As a result the stock history only shows definitive stock changes.

One-off correction for open orders

At the time of this update there were still open orders that already had a reservation. Because these are processed differently in the new setup, we carried out a one-off correction for them.

That means:

• Products with open orders may show an extra stock change.
• This correction was needed to line everything up with the new situation.
• Nothing was changed for products without open orders.

So if you see a one-off correction on a product, that is expected behaviour and not an error.

Why this update?

This change makes the stock history more logical and prevents noise from open or changed orders. It also gives us a solid base to extend stock functionality further.