thread Re: Online Availability for Shared Items Across Locations in Orders, Menu Items, Catalog & Fulfilment

Online Availability for Shared Items Across Locations

Loblolly — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:35:57 GMT

It would be helpful to customize the online availability of shared items per location instead of having to mark out of stock if we don't want to offer it online at a specific location.

For example, I have shared items across locations, but only want to offer a few of those online for one location. Since these items are also available online at other locations, I cannot simply hide them or make them unavailable. I want to hide them online at a specific location without having to mark them out of stock and still have them populate for the location online.

Can each item have a "location" toggle for online under "Where It's Sold"?

Re: Online Availability for Shared Items Across Locations

MayaP — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:08:59 GMT

Hi @Loblolly, thanks for sharing your feedback on the online availability of shared items. I think you’re raising valid concerns, and I’m going to tag a few sellers who may be able to share their insight: @bonny @BrianaJo @Bronze_Palms @cupzcoffeeaz @dasap1234 @DinaLRosenberg @Donnie-M

Let me know if there’s anything else I can help with.

Re: Online Availability for Shared Items Across Locations

Donnie-M — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:37:29 GMT

@Loblolly Do you use 1 website for all of your locations? or do you have different websites? I think you can solve this with the categories (only certain categories show up on certain pages). In theory you could do separate pages on 1 website with a landing page where you pick location and it takes you to that locations categories. Otherwise each website for me is like a sales channel.

But you can code each item to each location, if it is about selling it online vs. in store that can make it a little more complicated.

Re: Online Availability for Shared Items Across Locations

bonny — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:14:32 GMT

@Loblolly I'm just brainstorming here because I haven't yet figured out a workaround to a similar issue. One could could set up different pages for different audiences, but I can see a potential for them to accidentally be discovered. You know, Google searches and all - they get into everything that isn't nailed down. I suppose one could password-protect each location page to control who accesses it, but it's mightily inconvenient for customers.

Setting up different websites would require maintaining additional domain names, which would get spendy after a while and ungainly to manage because basically it's manual management of inventory doing it that way.

I'll give this some more thought and come back to this if a better method occurs to me.

Bonny Wagoner - Artist/Illustrator