# Are stock adjustment webhooks now being sent for items, instead of variations?

**URL:** <https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** catalog-api, webhooks-api\
**Created:** [February 22, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249 "2022-02-22T18:30:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![shannonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@shannonf](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/shannonf)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249/1 "2022-02-22T18:30:26Z")

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I was under the impression that inventory count event webhooks were only sent for variations, as only variations are able to have stock adjusted. Looking in my Square dashboard, I don’t see any options to adjust stock on an item, only variations. But we received a webhook that referenced an item in the inventory counts.

```auto
{
created_at: '2022-02-21T20:50:38.936612063Z', 
data: {
id: '2aa1f3ba-aa07-4fa9-bca8-b03ce4bb2006', 
object: {
inventory_counts: ["{'calculated_at': '2022-02-21T20:50:38.683Z', 'catalog_object_id': 'DK7L4POKJ6PRH67PRYP4DKHN', 'catalog_object_type': 'ITEM', 'location_id': '5TCJYTS0A7S17', 'quantity': '0', 'state': 'IN_STOCK'}"]
}, 
type: 'inventory'
}, 
event_id: '0fa7834e-2e80-4570-8ee1-def4a9f54871', 
merchant_id: 'D1NE7EWCJ2PMA', 
type: 'inventory.count.updated'
}

```

Since our webhook handler expects variations, this of course caused an error. Should we be expecting this webhook to handle both variations and items, or was this an error? I don’t even see how item stock can be updated, only variation.

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**Author:** ![Bryan-Square](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/bryan-square/32/38_2.png) [@Bryan-Square](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Bryan-Square)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:12pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249/2 "2022-02-22T21:12:58Z")

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👋 Inventory webhooks should have the item variation in the body. I haven’t been able to replicate this. What’s the application ID for this webhook? 🙂

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**Author:** ![shannonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@shannonf](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/shannonf)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249/3 "2022-02-22T21:41:41Z")

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sq0idp-\_OpWFbMJ0nQp7vhmCjzoKw

What I pasted in the original post is the body from the webhook. `DK7L4POKJ6PRH67PRYP4DKHN` is an item, not a variation.

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**Author:** ![shannonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@shannonf](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/shannonf)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249/4 "2022-02-22T21:45:31Z")

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Here’s the entire request body:

```auto
'{"merchant_id":"D1NE7EWCJ2PMA","type":"inventory.count.updated","event_id":"0fa7834e-2e80-4570-8ee1-def4a9f54871","created_at":"2022-02-21T20:50:38.936612063Z","data":{"type":"inventory","id":"2aa1f3ba-aa07-4fa9-bca8-b03ce4bb2006","object":{"inventory_counts":[{"calculated_at":"2022-02-21T20:50:38.683Z","catalog_object_id":"DK7L4POKJ6PRH67PRYP4DKHN","catalog_object_type":"ITEM","location_id":"5TCJYTS0A7S17","quantity":"0","state":"IN_STOCK"}]}}}'

```

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**Author:** ![shannonf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@shannonf](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/shannonf)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249/5 "2022-02-28T21:10:31Z")

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@Bryan-Square any update on this?

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**Author:** ![Bryan-Square](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/bryan-square/32/38_2.png) [@Bryan-Square](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Bryan-Square)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/are-stock-adjustment-webhooks-now-being-sent-for-items-instead-of-variations/5249/6 "2022-02-28T22:24:07Z")

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Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It looks like this is an item from Square for Restaurants which has a different model. I’ve let the team know and they will be updating the documentation. 🙂