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July 1, 2022

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# Fulfillment service SKU sharing

The fulfillment service SKU sharing feature gives fulfillment service apps the ability to stock and fulfill product variants together with merchant's locations.

Merchants will be able to stock and fulfill the same variant from multiple fulfillment services. This means that they can now have the same product/variant be stocked at their merchant managed locations as well as 3PL services at the same time.

This feature introduces the `permits_sku_sharing` parameter when creating or updating a fulfillment service. Setting `permits_sku_sharing` to `true` allows the merchant to assign fulfillment orders to both the merchant's locations and compatible fulfillment services.

When a fulfillment service app sets `permits_sku_sharing` to `true`, some of the following behaviour will break. If you set a product variant's `fulfillmentService` parameter ([REST](https://shopify.dev/api/admin/rest/reference/products/product-variant) & [GraphQL](https://shopify.dev/api/admin/graphql/reference/products-and-collections/productvariantupdate)) to `manual`, then it no longer means that the variant is stocked only at a merchant-managed location. Apps that use the `fulfillmentService` parameter in this way should instead use the `location` parameter on the Fulfillment Order resource to determine which location or fulfillment service fulfills a given product variant.

Learn about [multi-managed inventory](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/inventory/getting-started-with-inventory/multi-managed-inventory) from merchant's perspective.

Learn more about the [building a fulfillment service using the fulfillment orders API](https://shopify.dev/apps/fulfillment/migrate).

Learn more about managing fulfillment orders using the [REST Admin API](https://shopify.dev/api/admin/rest/reference/shipping-and-fulfillment/fulfillmentorder) and [GraphQL Admin API](https://shopify.dev/api/admin/graphql/reference/shipping-and-fulfillment/fulfillmentorder).