Small Parts & Bearings review for Google & YouTube
June 2, 2025
This App sends an incorrect availability to the Merchant Centre if stock is zero, but the item can be backordered. Instead of sending BackOrder to Merchants Centre, the App sends IN_STOCK.
Hi, sorry this makes the app unusable for you. We decided to make the availability "In Stock" when you click "Continue selling when out of stock" because on your Shopify website, this shows up as purchasable to customers. This behavior ensures what we show on Google matches the purchase behavior website. Not all websites show Backorder status as able to add to cart like you can set up on your store, and other stores may set it up that this backorder status simply shows as In Stock to a customer, so in those cases, us setting the status as Backorder and not In Stock could cause confusion for a customer clicking through the product but not able to check out, as well as negative experiences on ad campaigns. Basically, a merchant on Shopify settings "Continue to Sell" may mean the product is "In Stock", or "Backordered but Add to Cart" and we don't know. So we chose to go with the safest situation of "It's buyable, click this product" which ends up being In Stock in our database. If you could contact our support team, I'd like to understand the implications of this a bit more. It obviously seems important to you so I'd like to determine how important it is what we start including "Backorder" instead of in Stock when quantity is 0 but "continue to Sell" is selected.