Buy options & pack sizes
You count stock in single units, but you often buy in cases, boxes, or pallets. A buy option is how Stockwik bridges the two — it describes one way you purchase a product from a supplier, and how many sellable units come in each pack.
What a buy option includes
Each buy option has:
- Supplier — who you buy it from.
- Pack type — Each, Case, Box, Pallet, or a Custom name (e.g. "Bag of 50").
- Units per pack — how many sellable units are in one pack (1 for Each, 12 for a Case of 12, and so on). This is the key conversion.
- Supplier SKU — the supplier's item number (printed on purchase orders).
- Cost — the price per pack (Stockwik shows the per-unit cost too).
- Minimum order quantity (MOQ) — the smallest number of packs the supplier will accept.
- Primary — the default option used for reorder suggestions (one per product).
Why units-per-pack matters
Your inventory is always tracked in single units, but ordering happens in packs. Units-per-pack lets Stockwik convert between them:
Example
You sell cans individually but buy them by the case of 24. Set pack type = Case, units per pack = 24, cost = the case price. When Stockwik suggests you need 50 units, it rounds up to 3 cases (72 units) so you order in whole cases.
Multiple options per product
A product can have several buy options — for example, the same item from two different suppliers, or the same supplier in different pack sizes. Mark one as primary; that's the one the Reorder page uses to suggest quantities. You can switch the primary anytime.
Note
New products start with a default "Each" buy option at their Shopify cost, so you can reorder immediately. You only need to set up packs for products you actually buy in cases, boxes, or pallets.
Where to manage them
- On a product's detail page, under the Suppliers tab.
- On the standalone Buy options page (under Suppliers), where you can search, filter, and bulk-edit via CSV.
See Buy options for the step-by-step.