low inventory alerts

Question

I sell a lot of several items buy it now. Is there a way to automate alerts when my available inventory goes below 10?

eastlaneave · Answer

@505smithrepair

To the best of my knowledge there isn't an alert.

You could sort your active listings page by Qty Available every day to see the items with the least qty.

Have you turned on Out Of Stock?

If this is an item that you sell regularly, you may want to enable "Out of Stock" for your account.

With that setting, you can change the quantity to 0 (or sell your last one), and the listing will stay active.

This is an account-wide setting that will apply to all your listings.

To enable the "Out of Stock" setting

1) Go here https://www.ebay.com/uas/selling-pref
2) Turn ON the switch for "Listings stay active when you're out of stock" under the "Multi-quantity listings" section.

You can learn more on this help page:
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/-/-/bulk-listings?id=4160#outofstock

When the "Out of Stock" setting is enabled, eBay will NOT end your listing when the quantity gets to Zero. The listing, with its sales history, stays active. When your next shipment comes in, you can add inventory to the listing again.

This applies to ALL listings. So if you have any one-off items... for example, a used coffee mug, when that mug sells, the listing will still be there with 0 quantity. You will manually end any listings that you do not expect to restock.

When items have 0 quantity, they will be hidden from search.
When items are restocked, they will appear in search again.