Understand inventory and products

Learn how products, availability, and inventory quantities work together.

Where this lives

Products describe what can be booked. Inventory and availability rules decide when and how often those items can be offered.

How the pieces fit together

• A product can be active but still unavailable for a date if inventory, buffers, or overlapping bookings block it.
• Catalog changes affect browsing, while inventory changes affect booking eligibility.
• Availability problems often come from timing windows and quantity commitments, not from the product title or description.

Useful checks

• Compare the requested quantity against current allocations before assuming stock is missing.
• Check whether setup and pickup windows extend the time an item is considered busy.
• Keep archived items separate from active sellable inventory so reporting stays clear.