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A cycle is allocated an available item for its dates. When no item is available, the storefront refuses the line and the customer can’t check out. Allow overselling on a variant lets customers keep buying past the stock you have. Use it for made-to-order stock, pre-orders, or variants where you’d rather sell first and buy inventory to match than turn customers away. The cycle is still created. It shows No item until you allocate one, and Supercycle counts the shortfall on the variant so you know how much stock to add.

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Allow overselling on a variant

1

Open the product

On Products, open the product you want to oversell.
2

Open the variant

In the Inventory card, select the variant.
3

Turn on Allow overselling

Above the Items table, turn on Allow overselling.
With overselling on:
  • The variant stays bookable on the storefront for any dates, even with no available items.
  • Cart quantity is no longer capped by the number of items.
  • Cycles sold past your stock show No item assigned with a neutral tone. They aren’t flagged as a problem, because you chose to sell this way.
Turn it off and the storefront goes back to refusing dates with no available item. Cycles already sold without an item keep waiting until you assign one.

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Overselling FAQs

Yes. Allow overselling is set per variant, so one variant can sell past its stock while the rest stay capped by the items they have.
Yes. Cart quantity is normally capped by the number of items on the variant. With overselling on, that cap is lifted and the customer can add any quantity for their dates.
They keep waiting until you allocate an item. Turning it off only changes what the storefront does next, which is to go back to refusing dates with no available item. See Inventory troubleshooting for how to clear them.