API ReferenceEndpointsProductsUpdate inventory for a product

Update inventory for a product

Supports Idempotency-Key header for safe retries. ⛔ Rejects a KIT with 400: a kit holds no stock of its own — its availability is MIN(floor(component.available / quantity)), recomputed from its components on every read. Set the stock on the component products instead.

PUT
/v1/products/{id}/inventory
AuthorizationBearer <token>

Admin API key (server-to-server). Issue via the dashboard at Settings → API keys. Plain-text key is shown once — store in a secret manager. Format: Authorization: Bearer brainerce_xxxxxxxxx.

In: header

Path Parameters

idstring

Product ID

Header Parameters

Idempotency-Key?string

Client-supplied key (a UUID v4 is the recommended form, max 255 characters) that makes this mutation safe to retry.

  • Replay window: 24 hours. The first response for a key is cached; a retry inside the window with the same request body returns the original status and body without re-running the handler.
  • Reusing a key with a different body returns 409 Conflict with code: "IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED". The request fingerprint (method + path + body hash) is compared against the stored one; a mismatch is refused rather than served the old response.
  • Keys are scoped to the calling credential and store — two API keys may safely use the same key value.
  • Error responses are cached too, so a retry of a request that failed validation returns the same 400 immediately.
  • Sending this header on a GET returns 400 with code: "IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_NOT_SUPPORTED" — GETs are already idempotent.
  • Support is per-route and this parameter is the authoritative signal: a key sent to a route that does not declare it is accepted and silently ignored.

See /docs/api/idempotency.

Lengthlength <= 255
quantitynumber

New absolute stock level

variantId?string

Variant ID (optional). When present the variant of a VARIABLE product is set instead of the product, and the response is the inventory snapshot of that variant (trackingMode, total, reserved, available, inStock, canPurchase).

curl -X PUT "https://api.brainerce.com/api/v1/products/string/inventory" \  -H "Idempotency-Key: string" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "quantity": 0  }'
{
  "id": "clx1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h9",
  "productId": "clx1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h9",
  "trackingMode": "TRACKED",
  "backorderMode": "NONE",
  "backorderLimit": 10,
  "total": 100,
  "reserved": 4,
  "available": 96,
  "lowStockThreshold": 5,
  "lastInventorySyncAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updatedAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"
}

{
  "statusCode": 400,
  "code": "VALIDATION_FAILED",
  "message": "name should not be empty, price must be a positive number",
  "timestamp": "2026-08-23T10:15:00.000Z",
  "path": "/api/v1/products/{id}/inventory"
}

{
  "statusCode": 401,
  "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
  "message": "Invalid or expired credential",
  "timestamp": "2026-08-23T10:15:00.000Z",
  "path": "/api/v1/products/{id}/inventory"
}

{
  "statusCode": 403,
  "code": "INSUFFICIENT_SCOPE",
  "message": "API key does not have the required scope: products:write",
  "timestamp": "2026-08-23T10:15:00.000Z",
  "path": "/api/v1/products/{id}/inventory"
}

{
  "statusCode": 404,
  "code": "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND",
  "message": "Resource not found",
  "timestamp": "2026-08-23T10:15:00.000Z",
  "path": "/api/v1/products/{id}/inventory"
}

{
  "statusCode": 429,
  "code": "RATE_LIMITED",
  "message": "Too many requests",
  "details": {
    "retryAfterSeconds": 12
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-08-23T10:15:00.000Z",
  "path": "/api/v1/store"
}