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title: "Low Stock Alerts"
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# Low Stock Alerts

**Low stock alerts** help you avoid stockouts by monitoring inventory levels and notifying you when a product's quantity falls below a defined threshold. By setting minimum quantities and reorder points for each product-warehouse combination, you can proactively replenish stock before it runs out.

## Key Concepts

- **Minimum Quantity** — The lowest acceptable stock level. Falling below this triggers an alert.
- **Reorder point** — The stock level at which you should start the replenishment process. This is typically set higher than the minimum quantity to account for lead times.
- **Reorder quantity** — The suggested quantity to order when restocking.
- **Maximum Quantity** — An upper limit to prevent over-ordering and excessive storage costs.

## Setting Up Alerts

To create a low stock alert:

1. Navigate to **Inventory > Low Stock Alerts** in the sidebar.
2. Click **New**.
3. Fill in the details:
- **Product / Variant** — The product (and optionally a specific variant) to monitor.
- **Warehouse** — The warehouse where this alert applies.
- **Minimum** — The minimum stock level before an alert is triggered.
- **Reorder point** — The level at which reordering should begin.
- **Reorder quantity** — How much to order when restocking.
- **Maximum** — The maximum stock level to maintain (optional).
- **Alert Enabled** — Whether this alert is currently active.
4. Click **Save**.

## Seeing Which Alerts Are Triggered

Beelocity continuously compares your thresholds to the stock that is actually available (reserved, quarantined, damaged, or expired stock doesn't count). An alert is **triggered** when available stock reaches the reorder point, and becomes **critical** when it reaches the minimum quantity. Warehouse-scoped alerts look only at that warehouse; alerts without a warehouse watch your total stock across all warehouses. Triggered alerts are listed worst-first, so the products most in need of replenishment appear at the top.

## Managing Alerts

The alerts list shows all configured thresholds with their product, warehouse, quantities, and status. Its filter button narrows it to one **Product** or **Warehouse**, a **Min Qty** or **Reorder point** band, or the **Enabled** / **Active** ones (see [Working with lists](../getting-started/working-with-lists.html#narrowing-the-list)). You can:

- **Edit** an alert to adjust thresholds as demand patterns change.
- **Enable or disable** alerts without deleting them, useful for seasonal products.
- **Delete** alerts that are no longer needed.

## Important Notes

- You can set up multiple alerts for the same product across different warehouses — each warehouse may have different thresholds based on local demand.
- Review your reorder points periodically. If supplier lead times change or sales patterns shift, your thresholds may need adjusting.
- Low stock alerts work best alongside the [stock levels](./stock-levels.html) view, which shows current quantities across all warehouses.

Source: https://docs.beelocity.com/en/inventory/low-stock-alerts/index.mdx