What’s New at Shopify?

When a customer tries to add an item to their cart for a quantity greater than your available inventory for the product, the cart automatically adjusts the quantity down to match the available inventory. However, this can inadvertently reveal inventory information to your customers. To avoid this, you can set a restriction on the quantity per product that a customer can purchase in an order.

A new setting has been added to your admin that lets you control the maximum quantity allowed for any single item in a buyer’s cart. This limit only applies to carts created on your online store and does not apply to draft orders, point of sale, or carts that include products from catalogs with quantity rules (e.g. for B2B on Shopify).

We have automatically set your store’s limit based on quantities in your store’s entire order history. This suggested limit has a buffer to ensure future orders are unlikely to be impacted, even if they contain higher-than-average quantities. If your store has less than 250 orders, we have applied a default limit of 50.

You can see your set limit and change it as needed in the admin under Settings -> Checkout and learn more in the Shopify Help Center