National stock is a lie if you fulfill locally
A product can be “in stock” in Shopify and still be unsellable for the shopper in front of the grid — wrong warehouse, wrong market, wrong retail location. Sorting on total inventory will promote items that will cancel, delay, or convert as out of stock at checkout.
SortWise can rank using multi-location inventory so the locations that actually fulfill the order decide what sits on page one.
What this is for
- Multi-warehouse brands that should not advertise East Coast dead stock to West Coast buyers as a hero.
- Retail + ecom catalogs where POS stock should not dominate the online collection — or should, when that is the strategy.
- Markets that need sold-out and variant logic against the right location set, not a global sum.
On the plan operators actually buy
Multi-location inventory sorting is on the $9 Basic plan — the same tier as A/B testing, grouping, and metafields. Pair it with hourly sorts so a location-level stockout is not sitting in row one until tomorrow’s batch job.