Stock adjustments

A stock adjustment moves stock by an amount: add 12, remove 3. You never type what the shelf holds — only what changed. Logistified pushes exactly that movement to Shopify, records who made it, and keeps the document so you can undo it later with one click.

It is the fast lane next to stock takes: open the dialog, pick your location, scan or add your items, hit Adjust now. Done in under a minute — with a barcode scanner, without touching the mouse.

When to use an adjustment vs. a stock take

Use a stock adjustment when…	Use a stock take when…
You know exactly what changed: 4 units damaged, a carton of 24 found, 2 given away as samples.	You don’t know what you have and need to count it.
You want a fast, traceable record of a movement.	You want the system to reconcile counted vs. expected and show you the discrepancies.
You may need to undo it cleanly later.	You’re doing a periodic or cycle count.

Both write to the same Shopify inventory and both carry a reason from the same shared list — they differ in what you type. An adjustment asks how much changed; a stock take asks how much is there.

Creating one (the quick path)

Inventory Management → Stock Adjustments → New adjustment.

The dialog opens straight onto the item list — location at the top, the scan box ready, your items underneath.

Pick your location. See below — one click, or nothing at all if your store has a single location. 2. Add your items and set the amounts. Scan, pick or upload them (see below), then set how much each one moved. Every row shows what’s on hand at that location and what the adjustment leaves behind, so a mistake is visible before you commit. 3. Finish. Either: - Adjust now — creates the adjustment and sends it to Shopify immediately. You land on the document with everything already applied. - Save as draft — creates the document with your lines and sends nothing. Come back later, edit it, and apply when you’re ready.

Everything optional — reason, a name, notes, and Adjusted by — sits behind the Details button, one click away. It never stands between you and the finish: Save as draft and Adjust now are on both screens, and Adjusted by is already filled in with your Shopify staff name.

Choosing the location

Each of your locations is a button in the middle of the empty dialog, so starting an adjustment is a single click. The location you used last is highlighted in blue and comes first. A store with one location never sees the question — it’s already chosen. If you have more than eight locations, the first eight are shown as buttons and the rest are a search away in the Location box at the top.

Adding items — scan, pick, upload

Three ways, mix them freely in one adjustment. In the dialog all three are on the toolbar above the list: the scan box is always live — just scan, no clicking first — with Pick items and Upload beside it. On the document itself they live under Add items.

Way	What it’s for
Pick items	Search your catalog by product, title or SKU and select several at once. Items not stocked at the chosen location are shown dimmed.
Scan items	Scan barcodes or SKUs. Every scan moves that row by one — scan the same box five times and the row reads 5. In the dialog the scan box already has your cursor, so a scanner works the moment it opens.
Upload	A CSV / XLSX with a SKU (or barcode) column and a signed adjustment column. Same import flow as everywhere else in Logistified, including the column-mapping step.

Adding the same item twice never creates a second row — the amounts add up. Pick it, then scan it twice, and you get one row of +3. Uploading a file over items already on the document is the one place you choose: the import step asks whether the uploaded amounts should replace or be added to what’s already there.

Adding vs. removing

In the dialog, every row ends with its own Add | Remove switch, and the amount you type is a plain number — the switch decides the direction. Type 5 on a row set to Remove and it becomes −5; the number turns green when stock is coming in and red when it’s going out, so a wrong direction is visible down the whole list. Flip the switch and the number flips with it, which is the one-click fix for a row you set the wrong way round. Typing a minus yourself still works and simply flips the switch for you.

Scanning has its own Add / Remove toggle next to the scan box: leave it on Add to count rows up, flip it to Remove to count them down, and every scan moves the row it matches by one. It also sets the direction new rows start with — so for a batch of write-offs, flip it to Remove once, pick your ten items, and type ten plain numbers.

On the document itself the amount is a plain signed number: 12 adds twelve, −3 removes three.

Who made the adjustment

Every adjustment records an operator — the Adjusted by field, prefilled from your Shopify staff account and editable before you save. It appears in the list, on the document, in the PDF and in exports, so “who removed those 40 units?” always has an answer.

Adjustments made by a connected AI assistant or an API key record that connection’s name instead (for example Claude Desktop), so automated changes are as attributable as manual ones.

The lifecycle, if you don’t finish in one go

A saved draft follows the same path as a stock take:

Status	What it means
Draft	Created, no items yet.
In Progress	Has items; not pushed to Shopify (or only partly).
Completed	Everything was pushed to Shopify.
Cancelled	Abandoned. Terminal.

Adjust now walks it to Completed for you. If Shopify rejects a line — a deleted variant, an item not stocked at that location — the document stays In Progress with the reason on the row, and applying again only re-sends what didn’t land. Nothing is ever pushed twice.

Lines you’ve applied are marked Synced. If you change the amount on an applied line, it flips to Re-sync and the next apply sends only the difference.

Reverting

An adjustment can be undone in one action: Actions → Revert stock adjustment.

Reverting does not erase anything. It creates a new adjustment that is the exact opposite of what actually reached Shopify, links the two documents together, and (if you leave Apply immediately on) pushes it straight away. Your history keeps both records — what happened, and what undid it.

The two documents link both ways: the original shows Reverted by SA-…, the new one shows Reverts SA-….
If you delete the revert before applying it, the original becomes revertible again.
A revert can itself be reverted.

Revert is unavailable — with the reason in a tooltip — when there is nothing to undo: the adjustment was never applied, it still has unpushed lines (apply or clear them first), it’s cancelled, or it has already been reverted.

Document numbers

Adjustments get their own running number, separate from stock takes. Until you choose a format they look like SA-20260817-4821. Turn on a clean sequence (SA-000001, SA-000002, …) at Settings → Document numbering → Stock adjustments; a note bar on the list links you there until you do.

Exports and printing

Export (from the list or a single adjustment) offers Movements — one row per line with the amount, unit cost and value change — and Adjustment level — one row per adjustment with its totals, reason, operator, net quantity change and both revert links. CSV or XLSX, columns from a template you control.
Print PDF produces a Stock Adjustment Report with the operator, reason and every movement.
The list filters by status, location, reason, vendor and date (including the date each adjustment was applied), with a free-text search across number, name, operator, product and SKU. Save Filters keeps your view for next time.