An inventory group is a shared stock pool. Use inventory groups when several products or variants should draw from the same quantity, for example printed blanks, bundles, or made-to-order products that share one physical stock count.
Where inventory groups appear
Inventory groups appear in product inventory settings, stock levels, stock history, transfers, low-stock alerts, import and export jobs, and inventory webhooks. Every location you can see appears in the group's inventory view; locations without stock read as zero. The group itself carries identity, SKU, and overall low-stock threshold.
Creating and managing inventory groups
Create inventory groups from Inventory > Inventory Groups, set name, SKU, optional slug, and an optional overall low-stock threshold. Then open the group and enter inventory at any location where the physical pool is held. There is no separate location-assignment step.
Low-stock alerts
The overall threshold on the group compares total available stock across all locations. Each location can also have its own threshold, set from the group's Stock levels tab. An alert is sent when available stock falls to a threshold or below. Alerts don't stop sales.
Limits and permissions
A store can have up to 10,000 inventory groups. Names, slugs, and SKUs can be up to 100 characters, and descriptions up to 5,000. Quantities and thresholds can be up to 1,000,000. Changing a group's SKU also changes the SKU that stock CSV files must use for it.
Viewing inventory groups needs permission to read inventory. Creating, editing, deleting, importing, and changing stock need permission to manage inventory.
Deleting inventory groups
Deleting an inventory group is blocked while it has any on-hand or held stock, or while products, variants, or active transfers reference it. Adjust stock at every location to zero, remove those links, and complete or cancel transfers first. Deletion preserves the movement history.