What "Available" means, where
This is a reference for anyone on either side of a supply link — publisher or counterpart — trading stock through a shared anchor. "Available" and "Reserve" are the two words in this area most likely to be misread, because each means something different depending which screen you're looking at.
"Available" means three different numbers
| Where | What it counts |
|---|---|
/available column | a counterpart's published offer to you |
| Variant grid and detail | your own sellable stock, less reservations |
| The figure pushed to your Shopify storefront | your own plus partner supply, combined |
Your own Available, on the variants grid or a variant's detail page, only ever counts your own stock — what a counterpart has published to you shows alongside it as a separate figure, never folded in. The number Yessort pushes to your Shopify storefront is the one place the two are added together, so it's normal for the in-app figure and the storefront figure to disagree: the storefront always includes partner supply, the in-app figure never does.
"Reserve" appears in four places, one of which is a control
| Where | What it does |
|---|---|
/supply | the quantity you keep back — the only one that changes anything |
/available column | informational; already deducted from what you see |
| Anchor detail column | informational |
| Anchor detail field | writes a value no consumer subtracts |
Only the reserve on Supply to counterparts does anything: it's the quantity of your own stock you hold back before the rest publishes to your counterparts. Everywhere else the word "Reserve" appears — the column on Available to relist, the column on an anchor's detail page, and the field on that same page's manual publish form — it's a record of a reserve that's already been applied elsewhere, or a value nothing reads back. None of them subtract anything a second time, and typing a number into the anchor detail field doesn't reduce what a counterpart can draw.
See how supply links work for how the reserve and the published figure fit together, and publish supply to a counterpart for where each of these fields lives.