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The Transfer Suggestions report spots stock imbalances between your locations - surplus in one, a shortfall in another - and suggests moving units to rebalance. It’s a live, actionable report: you can create the transfer in Shopify and track it through to receipt without leaving Stockful.
Transfer suggestions between locations
Key columns: product, variant, SKU, the Origin and Destination locations (with their current stock and days of cover), and the suggested transfer quantity. On multi-location stores you can filter by Origin and Destination.

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How suggestions are worked out

For every SKU at every location, Stockful takes the daily sales rate (skipping days it was out of stock) and works out how many days of stock that location is holding.
  • A location has a surplus of a SKU when it holds more than its days of cover. The default is 30 days. You can set a different number for each location from Location settings on the Locations page (for one location or for a selection), or from Edit details on the location’s page. A warehouse can keep 45 days while the stores run on 21.
  • A location has a shortfall when it holds less than its days of cover, after counting stock already on its way there.
  • Where one location has a surplus and another a shortfall of the same SKU, the suggested quantity is the smaller of the two, so the origin never drops below its own days of cover and the destination never goes above its own.
  • The low stock threshold from Settings → Forecasting (and any per-SKU override) acts as a floor on both sides, so a location is never emptied below it.
  • A hub location’s demand is measured as the whole business’s sales, so it holds its days of cover for everyone it supplies before anything counts as surplus, and hub-to-store rows sort first.
Every pair of locations is compared in both directions, which is why store-to-store and store-to-warehouse rows appear alongside warehouse-to-store ones. Filter by Origin to see one location’s outgoing list on its own.

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Tabs

  • Suggested - current rebalance suggestions
  • In progress - transfers you’ve created from Stockful, with their live status
  • Dismissed - suggestions you’ve hidden

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Creating a transfer

Click Create transfer on a row, adjust the quantity if needed (it defaults to the suggested amount), add an optional note, and confirm. Stockful creates the transfer in Shopify as a draft (tagged stockful) and moves the row to the In progress tab.
Stockful never moves stock on its own. A created transfer is a draft - nothing leaves the origin until you mark it ready to ship and ship it in Shopify, exactly as you would for a transfer created by hand.
Once you ship it in Shopify the status updates here (Draft → Ready to ship → In transit), the units count as incoming at the destination, and the row drops off the In progress tab once the transfer is received or canceled.

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Dismissing suggestions

If a suggestion isn’t useful, dismiss it (with an optional reason) to hide it. Dismissed suggestions move to the Dismissed tab, where you can restore them. A dismissed suggestion that’s no longer relevant clears itself automatically. Created transfers are standard Shopify inventory transfers - you manage, mark ready to ship, ship, and receive them in Shopify exactly as you would any other transfer.
Creating transfers uses the write_inventory_transfers permission granted at install. Stockful only ever creates drafts - it never ships or receives on your behalf.