Inventory location indexing

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This is a beta feature according to Algolia’s Terms of Service (“Beta Services”).

Shopify Locations is a feature to track inventory quantities by physical locations. A location can be any place where you change inventory quantities, such as retail stores or warehouses. Indexing locations and their inventory quantities lets you add location-based features. For example, users can search and filter by location, or use BOPIS (buy online, pick up in store).

Turn on inventory location indexing

Make sure you set up your store with more than one location on Shopify. This results in extra API requests to Shopify. These extra requests can delay indexing if Shopify imposes rate limits. To turn on inventory location indexing:

In your Shopify admin, open the Algolia AI Search & Discovery app.
Go to the Indexing tab.
In the Products section, select Index inventory locations (BETA) and click Save. This triggers a product reindexing.
If you see a message with a request for additional read access permissions, click Update Store Permissions.
When the reindex is complete, check your products records for the new locations_inventory attribute.

Schema

Inventory locations are individual key-value pairs in the locations_inventory attribute of each product record. The key is the location ID, auto-generated by Shopify. The value is the inventory quantity at that location. The following example shows the location_inventory attribute with three locations:

JavaScript

{
  // ...
  locations_inventory: {
    "123456789": 10,
    "987654321": 5,
    "123123123": 0
  }
}

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Last modified on September 16, 2026

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Turn on inventory location indexing

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