How do you see the inventory adjustment history of a Shopify product, and for how long?

Where do you open a product's adjustment history?

On desktop or in the Shopify app:

1. In your Shopify admin, open the product under Products, or its variant.
2. In the Inventory section, make sure Inventory tracked is on. History exists only for products you track.
3. Click View adjustment history.

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Each tracked variant has its own history; you can't view all variants at once.

How do you read each row?

Each row has a Date, an Activity, Created by (the staff member, app or sales channel) and columns for inventory states such as Unavailable and Available. Under each state, the first number is the change and the second the new total.

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Activity depends on the method. Set to shows the reason you picked, or Manually adjusted without one. Adjust by shows the movement, such as Moved from, even with a reason. Apps and approved inventory counts write rows too.

How far back does it go, and where are older changes?

You can view only the last 180 days of history for a product or variant. Shopify doubled it from 90 days on November 8, 2024, so older sources may still say 90.

For older changes, open Analytics > Reports > Inventory adjustment changes; its filters include SKU, location, staff member, app and adjustment reason. Shopify's July 18, 2025 changelog says the new inventory reports hold data beyond the 180-day limit “on a go-forward basis” and, as of that post, need new Shopify Analytics.

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The inventory and reports help pages we read on October 15, 2026 describe no export from the history page itself, though Shopify lets you export reports for spreadsheet analysis.