Stay in Stock with Inventory Buffers

The Inventory Buffers feature gives you smarter control over how stock is distributed across your sales channels. It helps you avoid overselling during high-demand moments and ensures the right amount of inventory is always reserved for your most important marketplaces.

By setting positive or negative buffers, you can protect against stockouts, simplify pre-selling, and maintain a balanced inventory strategy without complex configurations or duplicate SKUs.

What’s New with Inventory Buffers

Inventory Buffers introduce flexible stock protection and pre-selling options that let you customize inventory behavior for each sales channel.

Highlights include:

Prevent Overselling: Reserve inventory for key marketplaces or channels to ensure your top customers never face an out-of-stock message.
Strategic Allocation: Maintain separate buffer amounts for each channel without creating duplicate SKUs.
Sell Ahead with Confidence: Use negative buffers to pre-sell items still in transit or awaiting restock.
Bundle-Ready: Pre-sell bundled products with ease using real-time buffer logic that adapts to changing inventory levels.

Why This Matters

Overselling during product launches or running out of stock on priority channels can harm customer trust and cause fulfillment headaches. Inventory Buffers give you the flexibility to fine-tune availability by marketplace, keeping sales flowing while protecting your reputation.

With this feature, you can:

Prevent oversells during flash sales or high-traffic periods.
Allocate inventory strategically across multiple sales channels.
Capture pre-orders and early demand without waiting for stock to arrive.
Manage bundles and multi-item listings with real-time visibility.

How It Works

From the Product Settings page, you can assign buffer values to any marketplace where your products are listed.

Positive Buffers reserve inventory to prevent overselling and guarantee stock availability for your top channels.
Negative Buffers allow you to sell ahead of physical stock—perfect for pre-orders or inbound inventory.

Warehance automatically applies these rules within your fulfillment workflow, ensuring each channel follows its defined stock logic without manual adjustments.

How You Can Use It Today

Flash Sales & Product Launches: Protect inventory for your most active channels to prevent oversells.
Pre-Orders: Use negative buffers to capture early demand while stock is still on the way.
Multi-Channel Management: Customize buffer settings per marketplace for balanced stock distribution.
Bundle Management: Keep bundles accurate by connecting real-time buffer logic to each component SKU.

The Bottom Line