Stock alerts
An alertAlertOne rule that watches the stock of one variant, or one Assemblified item, at one location. When the available stock is at or below the alert's threshold, Alertified notifies the alert's recipients on the channels it uses. Read more → watches one product variantVariantOne version of a Shopify product, such as a size or a color. Alerts on Shopify products are set per variant. Read more → at one Shopify locationLocationA Shopify location where you keep stock. Each alert watches one location, so choosing several locations creates one alert per location. Read more → . When that variant’s stock at that location reaches its thresholdThresholdThe stock level an alert watches for: 0 or higher. The alert fires when the available stock is at or below this number. Read more → or goes below it, Alertified notifies you on the channels you chose for the alert.
What an alert is made of
Section titled “What an alert is made of”| Part | What it is | |---|---| | Variant | The product variant to watch. | | Location | One Shopify location. The alert looks at the stock there and nowhere else. | | Threshold | A number of units. The alert notifies when stock at the location is at or below it. | | Email | One or more email addresses. Every alert has at least one. | | Channels | Where the notification goes: Email, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Teams, Webhook or ntfy. Email is always available; the others are available once you connect them in Settings. |
Each variant can have one alert per location. To watch a variant at three locations, you have three alerts, each with its own threshold. Alertified has no alert for the total across all locations: choosing several locations, or All locations, creates one alert for each.
The number an alert compares is Shopify’s Available quantity at that location. How alerts fire explains the rule in full.
Statuses
Section titled “Statuses”The Status column on the Stock Alerts page shows one of four statuses.
| Status | Means | |---|---| | Triggered | The alert has notified, and stock has not risen above the threshold since. It stays quiet until it does. | | Low Stock | The last stock level Alertified received is at or below the threshold, but the alert has not notified for it yet. This happens, for example, after you raise a threshold above the current stock. The alert notifies at the next stock change at or below the threshold. | | OK | The last stock level Alertified received is above the threshold. The alert is ready to notify. | | Waiting | Alertified has received no stock change for this variant at this location since you created the alert. The Stock column shows ?. |
A new alert starts as Waiting. It gets its first stock level the next time Shopify reports a stock change for that variant at that location.
Where alerts come from
Section titled “Where alerts come from”- Created in Alertified. Create alert on the Stock Alerts page lets you pick products, locations, a threshold, recipients and channels. See Create alerts.
- Imported. Bulk Import creates alerts from an
.xlsxfile, one row per alert. See Bulk import. - From Assemblified. With the Assemblified connection on, you can set alerts for Assemblified materials, sub-assemblies and pre-assembled BOM stock. They appear in the same list with a Material, Sub-Asm, BOM Pre-Asm or Asm badge in the Source column. See Assemblified alerts.
All alerts follow the same rule and appear on the same page, whatever their source.
See also
Section titled “See also”- The Stock Alerts page: find, filter and select alerts.
- How alerts fire: when an alert notifies and when it stays quiet.
- Notification channels: where alerts can notify you.