Local-only Warehouses
A warehouse without a channel mapping reserves stock and fulfils orders normally, but does not push inventory to any channel.
- Estimated time
- 3 min
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Required plan
- Any plan
- Last updated
- June 29, 2026
Overview
Local-only is a deliberate, safe behavior — never a failure. SellPilot logs a deduplicated diagnostic so you can decide when (or whether) to map the warehouse.
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- Inventory Push to Channels
How tracked stock changes are sent back to Shopify (and other supported channels), and why a missing mapping turns a warehouse into Local-only.
- Create an Order from a Conversation
Capture an order without leaving the conversation. Variants resolve against your live catalog and SellPilot picks the right warehouse for you.
- Inventory Overview
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