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INVALID_AVAILABILITY

How to fix an invalid availability value

Availability uses a small controlled vocabulary. Values such as available, yes, or ships soon are not supported product feed values.

Rule source reviewed September 3, 2026

Why it happens

  • A store platform exports a human-readable label instead of a supported value.
  • Spaces or hyphens are used where the specification expects an underscore.
  • A preorder or backorder item is missing its required availability date.

How to fix it

  1. 1Choose the accurate value: in_stock, out_of_stock, preorder, or backorder.
  2. 2For preorder or backorder, add an ISO 8601 availability_date no more than one year in the future.
  3. 3Confirm availability matches the landing page and checkout experience.

Example

Beforeavailability: available
Afteravailability: in_stock

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