Step 3. Create stocks
Order processing with Inventory Management
This step guides through the process for creating stock. Stock represents a virtual, aggregated inventory of products for sources of your sales channels. Each stock maps sales channels with sources to determine available inventories and salable quantities.
A sales channel can only be assigned to one stock.
The stock_id
of the default stock is 1
. You cannot delete or add sources to the default stock, but you can perform these actions with custom stocks.
For more information about stock, see Inventory Management overview.
Create the stock for North America
The POST V1/inventory/stocks
endpoint creates a stock. The name
, type
, and code
attributes are required. The code
value cannot be changed.
Endpoint:
POST <host>/rest/all/V1/inventory/stocks
Scope:
all
store views
Headers:
Content-Type
: application/json
Authorization
: Bearer <admin_token>
Payload:
The name
attribute is required.
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{
"stock": {
"name": "North America Stock",
"extension_attributes": {
"sales_channels": [
{
"type": "website",
"code": "na_site"
}
]
}
}
}
Response:
Magento returns the stock_id
, such as 2
. The value will be used in subsequent steps.
Create the Europe stock
Use the same endpoint to add another stock. The stock_id
for Europe Stock
is 3
.
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{
"stock": {
"name": "Europe Stock",
"extension_attributes": {
"sales_channels": [
{
"type": "website",
"code": "eu_site"
}
]
}
}
}
Verify this step
In Admin, click Stores > Inventory > Stocks. The new stocks are displayed in the Stock grid.