When a barcode stocktake's counting is done, nothing has changed in Shopify yet. The adjustment step is where you look at every discrepancy the count found, decide what to change, and push the corrections to your Shopify inventory in one go.
Manual stocktakes skip this page entirely — they update Shopify as each item is confirmed. See Counting Manually.
Opening the review
On the stocktake overview, select Count complete to finish the counting.
Select Create stock adjustment. EasyScan builds a review of every counted item and fetches each item's latest live stock from Shopify.
For very large counts, building the review runs in the background — progress is shown on the page, and it's safe to close the tab and come back later.
Reading the review
Each row shows the item, its current stock figures, and the Adjustment — the difference between what you counted and the stock figure the item had when it was first counted. Product names link to the product in your Shopify admin, so you can jump straight to any item you want to double-check.
While reviewing, you can:
Sort the rows — by the order items were counted, or by product and variant title.
Remove rows you don't want to adjust. Removing a row only takes it out of this adjustment — it doesn't delete the count or change the item in any way.
Download the review as a CSV or PDF for your records. The export reflects any rows you've removed.
Items that moved during the count
If an item's stock changed in Shopify after it was counted — a sale, a delivery, a manual edit — EasyScan flags it for you:
a warning icon appears on the affected row, with a tooltip showing how the stock figure has changed since the count started, and
a banner above the table summarises how many items have moved.
What the movement means depends on the stocktake's inventory mode:
On hand — applying sets each item's on hand quantity to the counted quantity, overwriting the movement. If a flagged change looks like a genuine sale or delivery rather than a counting error, remove that row and recount the item separately.
Available — applying adds your counted difference on top of the current stock, so ordinary sales that happened during the count are usually absorbed correctly.
The warning is a signal, not a blocker — you can always apply once you're happy with the flagged rows. Mid-count movement matters most on long, multi-day counts, so it's worth a careful look before applying.
Recording who and why
Before applying, you can record an Employee (who did the count), a Reason, and a Note. They're saved with the adjustment, which makes audits and end-of-year write-offs much easier to trace.
Applying the adjustments
When you apply, EasyScan pushes every remaining row straight to your Shopify inventory. How each item is updated follows the inventory mode the stocktake was created with:
On hand stocktakes — each item's on hand quantity is set to exactly what you counted.
Available stocktakes — each item's available quantity is adjusted up or down by the difference your count found.
Items you never counted are left untouched. If you want uncounted items set to zero, do that during counting from the Missed tab — see Counting with a Barcode Scanner.
For large adjustments, applying runs in the background: progress is shown on the stocktake, and closing the tab won't lose it.
When it finishes, the stocktake shows Stocktake adjustment completed, and its Adjustment status on the Stocktakes page changes to Completed. The new quantities are live in Shopify immediately — each change also appears in the product's inventory history in the Shopify admin.
After applying
Adjustments are applied once per stocktake, so make any removals before you apply.
The stocktake stays available for reference — counts, history, and exports are all kept. Archive it to keep your Stocktakes list tidy; archived stocktakes are read-only until restored.