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August 28, 2023

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# New inventory states: Safety Stock, Damaged and Quality Control

You can now use the GraphQL Admin API to adjust new inventory states: `safety_stock`, `damaged`, and `quality_control`.

By moving inventory units to one of these states, they are tracked as part of a merchant's `on_hand` inventory, but are unavailable for sale. Inventory quantities in one of these states display as **Unavailable** to merchants that are tracking inventory in the Shopify admin.

Learn more about the the new states on [Shopify.dev](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/fulfillment/inventory-management-apps).