Configuring inventories

When selling physical products, it makes sense that every product in the warehouse is related to inventory or stock management. Configuring and managing stock is a day-to-day job. A basic inventory setup in Magento 2 is straightforward and comparable to Magento 1. With growth, a product inventory management (PIM) system will be needed.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will use a Droplet created in Chapter 2, Magento 2 System Tools at DigitalOcean https://www.digitalocean.com/. We will be using an NGINX, PHP-FPM, Composer-based setup including sample data. No other prerequisites are required.

How to do it…

For the purpose of this recipe, let's assume that we need to configure an inventory for a Magento 2 setup. ...

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