Market and inventory

Your organization is your business inside Koalab: one currency and a single inventory shared out across your channels. It's in the side menu → “Organization”, in two tabs: “Market” for currency, time zone and taxes (nothing to do with Mercado Libre) and “Inventory” for how stock is split. The currency is chosen at the start, on the welcome screen.

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   Currency, time zone and taxes

   In “Market”, the “Currency” is your shared catalog's: the products Koalab keeps once and publishes on all your channels except independent ones. With no channels, you change it whenever you like. If your channels already state one, the list stays locked on it and below it says which ones set it. Changing the currency doesn't convert prices: 50,000 COP become 50,000 USD. “Time zone” sets the time of your scheduled uploads, the email summaries and the dashboard's “today”; on automatic it follows your channels. “Tax treatment” and “Rate (%)” are for reference only: Koalab neither adds nor removes taxes, so type your prices the way you want them shown. “Content language” is the one for titles and descriptions, not the screen's.

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   Splitting stock

   In “Inventory”, at the top is “Who owns the catalog”, with each channel's role; it has its own tutorial. Below, “How inventory is split” decides how much stock each channel that receives from Koalab sees. The leading channel publishes all the stock and independent ones carry their own. “Full”: every channel publishes everything; if two sell the same unit before Koalab passes the sale on, in about a minute, you oversell. “Split evenly”: stock is divided among those channels, paused ones included, and whatever doesn't divide evenly isn't published (with 10 units and 3 channels, each shows 3). “Capped”: each channel publishes at most the amount you set.

   Organization — Inventory

   How inventory is split

   Koalab holds the overall inventory. This decides how many units each channel sees of that total.

   Full

   Every channel publishes all the stock. You sell more, but two simultaneous sales can oversell you.

   Split evenly

   Stock is divided into equal parts. No overselling, but a channel can run out while another still has units.

   Capped

   Each channel publishes at most the amount you set. The middle ground.

   With a product of 42 units, each channel would see:

   mitienda.com

   42

   Mercado Libre

   42

   Outlet

   separate

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   The per-channel cap

   With “Capped”, “Maximum per channel” appears. It starts at 1: change it before saving, or each channel will show a single unit of each product. It's for not offering more on a marketplace than you want to sell there.

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   The safety buffer

   The “Safety buffer” is units taken off each channel that receives from Koalab, after the split, so the last ones aren't offered on several at once. It's taken off each channel: with 42 units, “Split evenly”, 3 channels and a buffer of 2, each one shows 12. The leading channel carries no buffer, and none goes below 0.

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   The preview

   With a sample product of 42 units, the screen shows how much each of your channels would see with these settings, before you save. Independent channels show as “separate”.