Location Quantity

The Location Quantity attribute rewards products based on how much inventory they have at a single fulfillment location you choose. If you run multiple warehouses, retail stores, or 3PLs, store-wide inventory totals can hide what matters: a product might show plenty of stock overall while the location that actually serves your shoppers is nearly empty. This attribute lets your sorting reflect stock where it counts, for example the warehouse that ships fastest, the store that handles local pickup, or the region a collection is aimed at.

Available for: Collection Sorting (Recipes).

How it works

Dynasort keeps track of your inventory levels at each of your Shopify fulfillment locations. When this attribute is in a recipe, each product is scored by its available quantity at the location you selected, summed across all of the product’s variants.

Points are awarded on a sliding scale between your Min and Max settings:

• At or below Min, the product earns zero points from this attribute.
• At or above Max, the product earns the attribute’s full point weight.
• In between, points scale linearly with quantity.

A product with no stock at the chosen location counts as zero quantity, even if it has inventory elsewhere.

Configuration

Setting	What it does	Default
Location	Which fulfillment location’s inventory to count	none selected
Min	Quantities at or below this earn zero points	0
Max	Quantities at or above this earn full points	100
Auto-update Min/Max	Keeps Min and Max tuned to your catalog automatically	off

The chart on the attribute page shows how your products are distributed by quantity at the selected location, along with recommended Min and Max values, so you can place the scale where it actually separates your catalog.

Auto-update Min/Max

Inventory shifts constantly, and a Min/Max range that fit your catalog last month can drift out of tune. With the auto-update checkbox enabled, Dynasort recalculates the recommended Min and Max for this attribute once a day and applies them for you, and also applies them immediately when you save the attribute. Leave it off if you want the range pinned to specific business thresholds, for example “anything under 5 units at the main warehouse should earn nothing.”

Methodology and notes

• The quantity used is the product’s total available inventory at the chosen location, added up across all of its variants.
• Min and Max are cutoffs, not just labels: 0 points at or below Min, full points at or above Max, and a straight-line ramp between the two. A tight range makes the attribute behave almost like a yes/no signal; a wide range produces gentler, more gradual differences.
• This attribute reads one location on its own, independent of any store-wide inventory location settings you may have configured elsewhere in Dynasort. Those settings control how overall stock totals are calculated; this attribute always uses exactly the location selected here.
• Inventory levels sync from Shopify on your plan’s regular processing schedule, so a stock change typically influences sorting within minutes to an hour.

Choosing Min and Max

Set Min just below the quantity where you would consider the product comfortably stocked at that location, and Max around the level of your well-stocked items. If Max is set far above your typical stock levels, only a handful of overstocked products will earn meaningful points and the attribute will barely differentiate the rest. The recommendations on the attribute chart are a good starting point.

Tips

• Add one instance of this attribute per location that matters, each with its own weight. A high-weight instance for your primary fulfillment center plus a low-weight instance for a secondary warehouse prioritizes products that can ship quickly while still giving some credit to stock elsewhere.
• Use it to clear overstock at a specific location: a recipe that combines Location Quantity with On Sale naturally promotes discounted products sitting in the warehouse you want to empty.
• If you only care about total stock across your whole store, the regular Inventory Quantity attribute is the simpler choice. Reach for Location Quantity when the where matters as much as the how much.