How supply links work
This page is for both sides of a supply link — the organisation publishing its stock and the counterpart selling it — because the two sides share one mechanism, and neither screen tells the whole story by itself.
A supply link isn't something you create directly. It's what happens once two organisations have an active trading relationship and a shared anchor: one organisation's stock becomes something the other can sell, without either organisation doing anything more than setting a reserve and letting the rest publish itself.
The publisher's side
If your organisation holds stock against an anchored variant, you can make a quantity of it available to your trading counterparts while keeping some back for yourself. You do this on Supply to counterparts, where every anchored variant your organisation holds is listed with a reserve you can set and a checkbox to pause sharing. Whatever isn't held back — your own sellable stock at sites you share with a counterpart, minus your reserve — publishes automatically to every active trading relationship you have. There's no per-counterpart figure on this screen: one reserve applies to every counterpart alike. A one-off override for a single counterpart is published from the anchor's own detail page instead, by the organisation that curates the anchor — see publish supply to a counterpart.
The consumer's side
If a counterpart publishes to you, its offer appears on Available to relist as a quantity alongside the publisher's name and the anchor. There's nothing to do with that figure directly — no button, no link, nothing to click on that page. You sell it the same way you sell your own stock: through the ordinary order flow. When an order needs more of a variant than your own stock covers, and a counterpart's published offer covers the shortfall, Yessort acquires the stock from that counterpart automatically as part of allocating the order. That's a cross-organisation trade, and it happens without you doing anything beyond placing the order.
Two caps, not one
A cross-organisation draw is capped twice. The published figure you see on Available to relist is the commercial cap — how much the publisher has agreed to make available to you. Underneath that, Yessort also checks the publisher's actual pickable stock at the bin — the physical cap. Both are consulted when an order draws: the allocator reads the publisher's stock directly, capped by whatever they've published. A published offer can only ever be filled up to what the publisher genuinely holds.
The reserve is already accounted for
The reserve a publisher sets on Supply to counterparts has already been subtracted before you ever see a number. Any "Reserve" figure shown to you as a consumer — on Available to relist, or on an anchor's detail page — is informational only. Don't subtract it again; the Available figure you're shown is already net of it.
Read-only, and no relisting
Available to relist is a read-only screen. There's no relist control anywhere in Yessort — you don't take an action to make a counterpart's stock sellable, and there's nothing to configure on that page. It's sellable the moment it's published, through your ordinary order flow, exactly like your own stock.
Why a draw isn't instant
The published figures update automatically and quickly, the moment stock or reservations change on the publisher's side. But the trade that actually moves stock between two organisations — the acquisition your order creates, the publisher's side of it, and the matching movement that comes back to you — travels through four separate one-minute background sweeps in turn, with no faster path to nudge any of them. Worst case, that's up to about four minutes from the moment an order draws on a counterpart's stock to the moment your own stock reflects it. If you're watching a screen expecting an instant change, that delay is normal.
One published figure, several counterparts
The Published figure a publisher sees on their own Supply to counterparts screen is a maximum across every counterpart they supply — not a per-counterpart figure. Two counterparts sharing different sites with the same publisher can genuinely receive different quantities, and the Published column won't show you that: it only ever shows the highest of them.
See what "Available" means, where for how these figures compare across every screen that uses the words "Available" and "Reserve," and publish supply to a counterpart for the steps.