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Needs Listing

What it’s telling you

You added an inventory item in QuickBooks. Nothing on this storefront corresponds to it. That’s normal partway through setting up a product, and it’s also normal permanently — plenty of items are deliberately never sold on a particular channel.

It is not an error, and nothing is stuck. No order failed and no sync is blocked. The report exists because inventory can’t sync for a product that only exists on one side.

Each row shows the product’s name, its SKU, and the quantity on hand in QuickBooks, so you can tell what the item actually is without opening QuickBooks.

Clearing a row

Create the product on your store and map it. The row disappears on its own once the mapping exists — there’s nothing to resolve or dismiss.

Ignoring things you’ll never list

Some items are never going to be sold on a given channel: services, freight charges, samples, items you only sell elsewhere.

Choose Ignore on the row and it stays hidden. Ignoring is a decision that sticks — the item won’t come back the next time it turns up in a QuickBooks transaction.

Ignored items remain viewable, so you can bring one back if you change your mind.

It’s per store, on purpose

Merchants stock channels differently — something listed on Shopify may be deliberately absent from Amazon. So “ignore” is answered per store.

When a decision does apply everywhere, the app offers to apply it across every store in your organization at once, so per-store precision doesn’t turn into per-store tedium.

How this differs from an order exception

Both mention products, in opposite directions:

  • Needs Listing — the product is in QuickBooks and missing from your store. No order is involved, and nothing is blocked.
  • Order exception — an order arrived from your store containing a product that isn’t mapped to a QuickBooks item, so that order is waiting to post. See Order exceptions.

FAQ

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Do I have to do anything about Needs Listing?

No. It’s a report, not a queue. Act on the rows that represent products you meant to list, and ignore the ones you didn’t.

Why did an item I retired in QuickBooks disappear from the list?

Making an item inactive in QuickBooks takes it off the report automatically.

I ignored something by mistake. Can I get it back?

Yes — ignored items stay viewable and can be restored.

Does a row here mean inventory isn’t syncing?

It means inventory can’t sync for that product, because it only exists in QuickBooks. Everything mapped keeps syncing normally.

These used to appear on the Order Exceptions page. What changed?

They did, and it was misleading — they were shown as orders that couldn’t sync, identified by an internal code, when no order was involved. They’re now a report under Products, showing the actual product name and stock on hand.
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