Venue - Product page - Show a low stock notice

The Venue theme — including its presets Sunset, Weekend, Morning, and Evening — has the ability to show stock level notifications on your product pages and in the Quick Shop drawer. This feature has been available since version 4.5.0, released 19 November 2019, and is a great way to create urgency for low-stock items.

This guide will show you how to enable and customize these notices.

A. Enable inventory tracking in Shopify

To display stock levels on your product page, Shopify’s inventory tracking must be enabled.

1. Go to your Shopify admin
2. Open a product
3. Scroll to the Inventory section - or click into a variant if your product has them
4. Check Inventory tracked

B. Enable the low stock notice in the theme editor

Next, head into the theme editor:

1. Go to Online Store > Themes > Customize
2. Navigate to a product page
3. In the left sidebar, click into the Product information section
4. Click into the Inventory notice block - or add this block if it's not already showing
5. Set up your notice as you wish

C. Change the wording of the low/in stock notice

You can edit the text that appears (for example, “Only 3 left!”) to better suit your brand tone.

1. Go to Online Store > Themes > … (button with three ellipses)> Edit default theme content
2. Use the search bar to search for the terms 'Qty'
3. Look for the Qty notice number low stock html field (or in stock if you prefer)
4. Enter your custom message using the {{ count }} variable

Example:

To show: Hurry, only 3 left!

Use this HTML:

Hurry, only <span>{{ count }}</span> left!

This will dynamically insert the correct stock level based on the product variant.

D. Customize the message for products that are out of stock but still available to purchase

If you’re using Shopify’s Continue selling when out of stock setting, the theme lets you edit the message shown when a product has no stock but is still purchasable.

To update this message:

1. Go to Online Store > Themes > … (button with three ellipses)> Edit default theme content
2. Search for 'Qty' term to bring up the relevant fields
3. Customize the message in the Qty notice continue selling field

You can use this to show helpful context such as:

“Available on backorder”, “Ships in 1 to 2 weeks”, or any other message that fits your store’s approach to selling out-of-stock products.