How to Make Adhoc Stock Adjustments in Shopify POS

Learn how to quickly make adhoc stock adjustments directly from Shopify POS without running a full stock take. Improve inventory accuracy with ease.

Check out our video or read on to find out more about how you can make ad hoc stock adjustments.

Setting Up Adhoc Adjustments

First, let's get set up. Navigate to the Guides section in the Stock Take app menu when in Shopify Admin, then scroll down to Ad hoc stock adjustments. This guide walks you through the configuration and available options.

From this page, you can add the extension directly to your Shopify Point of Sale. Once added, the setup is complete!

Configuring Adjustment Reasons

To keep your data organized, you can predefine specific reasons or reason codes for stock adjustments. You can do this from the settings page in our app.

Here, you can configure additional adjustment reasons that your team might need. For example, you might add "Damaged" or "Faulty" to the list. Once saved, these options will be available whenever an adjustment is made.

Adjusting Stock on Shopify POS

Now let's look at how this works in practice on the Point of Sale.

When viewing a product on your POS device, you will now see an additional bar at the bottom containing Adjust Stock.

Clicking on Adjust Stock opens the adjustment interface. Here, you can modify the stock levels instantly. The reasons for adjustments (like the ones we just set up in the admin settings) will be available to select.

Simply adjust the quantity—for example, reducing the count by 1 for a damaged item—and hit Save. That stock will be automatically adjusted in the background.

It's as easy as that to make ad hoc stock adjustments!