You can update your Oversell Policy at any time to increase or decrease the number of future backorders to accept, as well as to adjust the time period or expire it.
However, it’s important to note that the Oversell Limit does not decrease as backorders are allocated against those units. This means, when you update an Oversell Policy, the total number of oversellable units "resets" to the latest number you entered in the form.
For example:
- Last week you created an Oversell Policy for 100 units, based on an incoming shipment. Since then, you’ve received 95 backorders on the SKU, meaning you have 5 oversellable units left.
- You have 45 more units shipping to MasonHub on a new ASN. Now you want an oversellable of 50 (to include the remaining 5 oversell units from the first ASN, plus another 45 from the new one).
- When you edit the Oversell Policy, you will see the original 100 as the Oversell Limit. You adjust this to 50 to represent the new total that will be available.
- Note: Once you click Create, the number you entered in the form will be your new oversellable quantity. Updating Oversell Policies doesn’t add to the existing number of oversellable units, it expires the original policy and creates a new one with your new Oversell Limit. That is why you enter 50 for the new policy (original 5 + new 45), rather than 45.
- The 95 backorders you previously received will remain the same, and you now have 50 oversellable units.