There is basic inventory management in Shopify that allows you to manually adjust the inventory in your Shopify account. Because it’s already included in the Standard plan, many Shopify sellers make do by managing inventory this way. To set it up, you need to enable transfers:
Go to your Shopify admin panel
Select one of your Shopify product variants and click on Edit
In this window, go to the Inventory section and find the Inventory Policy drop-down menu
Select Shopify Tracks this Product’s Inventory
Don’t forget to save your changes
After you set up a transfer for one of your products, you can use Shopify to receive inventory for this particular Shopify SKU. You can click on Add Transfer to set the number of items expected to be supplied into your Shopify inventory.
If you need a way to track raw materials, inventory, product recipes, and production processes, this won’t work — and neither will large, clumsy Excel sheets. In that case, it's better to opt for dedicated inventory management software for Shopify.
External Shopify inventory management software has become a viable option to iron out the creases in the platform’s native system and give you the visibility you need over all aspects of your Shopify business — from sales and inventory to production.