Safety Quantity

Overview

A Safety Quantity is a buffer between the amount of inventory you have and the amount Sellercloud sends to the channel, which prevents overselling on high-selling items. It is used to subtract a number from the available quantity. For example, if there are 5 units available and the Safety Quantity is 1, only 4 will be sent to Amazon.

You can read more about the other ways to control inventory sent to channels here: Channel Warehouse, Channel Warehouse Mapping, Replenishable.

Set Safety Quantity on Products

You can set safety quantities on products manually or in bulk.

Manually

To override the Safety Quantity on a product level:

1. Go to Catalog > Manage Catalog > Open a product.
2. From the Toolbox, go to Channels > Select *Channel* Properties
3. Edit the Safety Qty field.

In Bulk

1. Go to Catalog > Manage Catalog > Tools > Import Product Info > Bulk Product Update.
2. Generate a template with a Safety Quantity column.
3. Populate the fields and import it back to Sellercloud.
   

Set Safety Quantity Defaults on Companies

The Safety Quantity can be set on a company level manually or in bulk.

Manually

1. Go to Settings > Company > Manage Companies > Open a company.
2. From the Toolbox, go to either:
   1. Defaults and set a Safety Quantity for each channel, or to
   2. Channels > Select a channel > General Settings > Set a Safety Qty for the channel.

In Bulk

1. Go to Catalog > Manage Catalog > Tools > Import Product Info > Bulk Product Update.
2. Generate a template with a Safety Quantity Use Default column.
3. Populate the fields and import it back into Sellercloud.

Replenishable Products and Safety Quantity

Each channel has a default company-level safety quantity and a product-level safety quantity. On the channel’s page, there are two safety quantity settings — one for regular products and one for replenishable products. Typically, Safety Quantity can be set to 0 for replenishable products because there is no strict inventory for replenishable products.