# Allocating Inventory

Sellercloud allows you to allocate inventory awaiting to be received on your Purchase Orders in a number of ways. The inventory calculation Sellercloud uses to track this inventory is called “**Quantity On Order**.”

- You can allocate inventory on a PO to an Order

1. To allocate inventory on a PO to an Order, go to the desired **Order’s detailed page** and select “**Link Item(s) to PO**” from the “**Actions**” button dropdown.

2. From here, you can choose to “**Dropship**” the Order, or in this case, we will choose “**Link to PO(For Cross-Docking)**” as the type and then move to the “**Details**” tab.

3. In the “**Details**” tab, we can select the SKUs from the Orders you want to “**Link To PO**,” type in the “**QTY FOR PO**,” and then click the “links” icon to “**Link To PO**.”

4. This will open a window where you can choose to either link the SKUs to an “**Existing PO**” or, if you would like, create a “**New PO**” for the Order.

- You can allocate inventory on a PO to a FBA Inbound Shipment

1. To allocate inventory on a PO to an FBA Inbound Shipment, go to the desired PO’s detailed page and select “**Sync To FBA Inbound Shipment**” from the “**Actions**” **button** dropdown.

2. This will open a menu where you can choose to either **Link** or **Copy** the PO to a New or Existing FBA Shipment.

- Copying will copy this PO’s items to an FBA Shipment

- Linking will copy this PO’s items to an FBA Shipment and connect the FBA Shipment to this PO so that your vendor can ship directly to FBA

3. Linking to a New FBA Shipment will create a **brand new FBA Shipment Plan** for you to manage in your Sellercloud account in the **Inventory Module**.

4. Linking to an existing FBA shipment will bring you to a tab where you can search for the FBA Inbound shipment you want to link to inventory waiting to be received on the desired PO.

- You can allocate inventory on a PO to your channels

1. Sellercloud gives you the option to use your “**Quantity On Order**” inventory as part of your “**Available Quantity**” being sent to your sales channels by adding “**Pre-sell Quantity**.”

- The Inventory Pre-sell feature is controlled by the **Enable PO Pre-sell Quantity** option, which is available under **Client Settings** in the **Purchasing section**(Advanced). Once enabled, the relevant fields will appear in the **Purchase Order details**.

2. In the desired PO’s detailed page, go to the **Toolbook** and select “**Items**” from the drop-down.

3. Now click the “**pencil icon**” in the top right of the “**Items**” window to edit, checkmark the SKUs you want to “**PRESELL**,” type in the “**PRESELL QTY**,” and click the **green** “**checkmark**” **icon** to save the PO.