How are you tracking the reason behind manual inventory adjustments?

ducky2120
Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:56:49 +0000
Shopify Apps

We keep running into the same issue: stock gets adjusted manually, but later nobody remembers "why" it changed or where the explanation lives. Sometimes it is in Slack, sometimes a spreadsheet, sometimes nowhere.

I am trying to understand how other Shopify merchants handle this today.

Questions:
- Where do you record the reason behind manual inventory adjustments?
- Do you need notes, evidence, or reference numbers attached to those changes?
- Do you need a storewide export/report of manual adjustments?
- Does the native adjustment history work for you, or does it break down later?

I am not looking for broad inventory software recommendations. I am specifically trying to understand the audit/reconciliation side of manual stock changes.

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