As you make the move to go live with Finale, your inventory levels should be correct and ready to be pushed to all of your marketplaces.
There are two necessary steps to ensure stock levels are pushed from Finale to your marketplace correctly:
Confirm Product Lookups
Configure Push Stock Levels Integration Task Settings
The charts below should look familiar as you have navigated through the onboarding academy. In simple terms, the product lookup (marketplace SKU) should point to the correct product and have the appropriate store association.
If the store association is not identified for the marketplace listing (lookup), then Finale will not push stock levels to that listing for that store. The easiest way to remedy this problem is to import the spreadsheet to add those store associations.
Please reference the Product Lookup Resource for a more comprehensive overview.
To configure your push stock levels task, navigate to the integration tab in your Finale account and select the push stock task for the desired integration. Please see the image below.
This will take you to the Push Stock Task page for this integration, where you can configure your settings.
The task run mode controls the frequency at which the task runs. Most users select automatic since they want stock continuously pushed to their marketplaces. The manual option would require the user to select Run Task Now on the Integration page when they want stock pushed, and the disabled option would prevent the task from running.
Quantity Selections
Please note that all the settings described below can also be configured on the product level using the Product Detail page. The integration settings are the global settings for all your products, unless you specify an alternative approach at the product level.
Finale recommends using the integration settings as your primary approach. Then, configure the settings for the products that don’t align with these settings separately.
The base quantity selection controls which stock category (i.e., quantity on-hand, reserved, or on-order) is pushed, and whether to include or exclude BOM quantities. Most people by default leave the default setting, “Remaining after reservations (include BOM). The remaining units take into account quantity on hand minus any stock reservations on open orders to prevent over-selling.
The stock source controls which location the stock is pushed to in this marketplace. Oftentimes, users elect to have all their central stock for fulfillment in their general warehouse, segmenting other stock, like unsellable inventory or FBA stock, to other locations. This allows you to only push stock from the location that is relevant for this marketplace.
The supplier quantity can be included in the stock total if you elect to use this option. This can be helpful for drop-ship items you don’t carry in stock.
The next set of settings options is mostly configured on the product level versus the integration or global level. Most users do not make any changes to the following settings. Please see the image below for additional setting options and descriptions.
The last series of settings is specific to certain integration options. These are not present on all integrations.
Most users elect to leave these settings unchanged from the default option unless your marketplace’s daily API rate limits prevent Finale from updating all product lookups. This is usually a problem only when dealing with an extremely high number of product listings. Most users do not experience this issue.
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