Role covered: Stock control clerk
Shopify Inventory Agent
Watches stock levels and drafts the purchase order before you run out.
Tracks how fast every size and colour sells, warns you about items about to sell out or sitting unsold, and prepares reorder lists and supplier orders for your approval.
Shopify Inventory Agentonline on WhatsApp
- Daily stock check: 1,204 items
Agent: 17 items have under 14 days of stock left. 9 have not sold in 60 days.
Agent: I drafted 2 supplier orders. Supplier A has 11 lines, Supplier B has 6.
- Waits for you
Agent: Each line shows how I worked out the quantity. Send both orders?
- Approve both
- Edit quantities
You: Send A as it is. On B, halve line 4, then send.
Agent: Order 0193 is emailed to Supplier A. Order 0194 is updated and emailed to Supplier B.
- Starts when
- Every morning, plus low-stock events
- Asks you before
- Every purchase order before it is sent
- Works in
- Shopify admin
- Google Sheets
How it works
One run of the Shopify Inventory Agent, step by step
Green steps are done by the agent. The yellow step is where you check the work. Press play, or pick a step.
Shopify Inventory Agent: one run
Step 1 of 5: Starts
The daily check starts or stock drops
Runs every morning and whenever an item drops below its low-stock level.
- Handled by
- Your tools
- Touches
- Schedule
- Shopify alerts
Division of work
What the agent takes, and what stays with you
The routine work goes to the agent. The judgment stays with your team.
The agent handles
- A daily stock and sales check for every size and colour
- Alerts for low stock and overstock, with how many days are left
- Reorder amounts and draft supplier orders
- Flagging sold-out and slow-moving items
- A weekly stock report
You keep
- Supplier negotiation and payment
- How much cash to tie up in stock
- Final sign-off on every order
Guardrails
You stay in control of every agent
An agent is a new team member with a narrow job, limited access and a manager. These four rules apply to every one I build.
Approval first
Customer-facing or costly actions wait for a person until you decide a step can run on its own.
Only what it needs
The agent gets its own login with only the access the job needs. No shared passwords.
Full log
Every read, decision and action is recorded, so you can see what it did and why.
Off switch
Pause the agent at any time. Your tools keep working exactly as they did before.
Getting started
From first call to an agent you trust
Every agent starts supervised. It earns more freedom only after it has done the job well on real work.
- 01
Map the job
We write down the task as it is done today: the inputs, the rules, the exceptions and what good looks like.
- 02
Build on your data
I build the agent and test it on real past cases until its work matches your standard.
- 03
Supervised launch
It runs live with every action approved by you, and the rules are tuned on real work.
- 04
Run and improve
Approvals are relaxed where the agent has earned it. I monitor it, report on it and keep improving it.
Questions
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