Out-of-stock inventory threshold higher than 0
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Angel Santos
Input an inventory quantity value higher than 0 to consider as an out-of-stock threshold for products. Example: want to make all items that have quantity lower than 72pcs to be marked as out-of-stock on Shopify. Right now there's a task for completely hiding products from website, but that leads to a lot of 404 error pages and bad SEO practices.
Tim Mackey
It might be possible to "fake" this behaviour, but as far as I know there isn't a straightforward way to do it. Shopify's out of stock status is directly tied to the inventory quantity and will only show "out of stock" if the inventory is zero or less.
The simplest way to do this would be to track your inventory separately from Shopify's inventory quantity, then apply some rule/math to that amount before putting it into Shopify's inventory field. You'd store your true inventory quantity either in a metafield, or somewhere external like a Google Sheet.
The alternative would be to make customizations to your theme, but my feeling is that would be much more complicated.