Knowledge base
Sellable stock buffer
A protected quantity of inventory that stays unsold or unreleased until the business confirms that demand, reservation windowing, and cutoff timing still match real warehouse capacity.
Why it matters
Sellable stock buffers reduce oversells by separating true ready-to-promise inventory from units that still need reservation windowing, late-wave protection, or exception review during demand spikes.
Example
A Shopify gloves seller with 400 physical units may expose only 360 as sellable stock until the team confirms reservation windowing, late-cutoff holds, and channel updates are still in sync.
- inventory-sync
- outbound-check