Sell Ahead lets you sell inventory that's on its way to the warehouse but hasn't arrived yet. You enter a sell-ahead quantity on an inbound shipping plan, and LVK pushes that quantity to your store as available to sell. Use it for product launches and major sales where you don't want to wait for receiving to finish.
Benefits of Selling Ahead on a Shipping Plan
- Start selling before inventory arrives at the warehouse, at no additional cost.
- Set customer expectations around ship dates from the first day of the launch.
How to Request and Use Sell Ahead
- Open a support ticket to request the sell-ahead feature. Support enables it on your account. Only then will the sell-ahead column appear.
- Create a new shipping plan. See How to Create a Shipping Plan.
- While the shipping plan is in Draft status, enter a sell-ahead quantity for each line item you want to sell early. You don't need to enter a quantity for every SKU.
- Complete the rest of the shipping plan.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and select Save. LVK pushes your sell-ahead quantities to your store.
Your sell-ahead quantity cannot exceed the total quantity on the shipping plan, which prevents overselling.
Important
After you save the shipping plan, the sell-ahead quantity is pushed to your store and can no longer be edited on the shipping plan. Confirm your quantities before saving.