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Shopify import error: "Inventory quantity is not a number"

What it means: Inventory quantity holds something other than a whole number: a word such as "ten", a decimal such as 2.5, a thousands separator such as 1,200, or a note such as "in stock".

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The product CSV you are about to import into Shopify, or the one Shopify just rejected.

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How to fix it

  1. Replace each listed value with a whole number, for example 1200.
  2. Spreadsheet programs sometimes reformat numbers; check the cell in a plain text editor if it looks right in the spreadsheet.

Example

A file with this problem

Title,URL handle,Status,Option1 name,Option1 value,Price,Inventory tracker,Inventory quantity,Continue selling when out of stock,Fulfillm...
Cotton Tee,cotton-tee,active,Size,S,20.00,shopify,ten,deny,manual,

What the checker says about it

  • Line 2: Inventory quantity "ten" is not a whole number ("Inventory quantity is not a number").

Once the listed rows are fixed, check the file again; the checker also looks for every other problem Shopify documents, so you do not trade one error for the next.

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