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October 10, 2018

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# The Product Variant resource has new defaults for inventory\_quantity and inventory\_management

When you create a new product variant, there are two new default values applied to the `inventory_quantity` and `inventory_management` properties.

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* `inventory_quantity` now defaults to `0`
* `inventory_management` now defaults to `shopify`

The change to `inventory_quantity` is live, and the change to `inventory_management` will come next week.

To learn more, see [*Product Variant*](https://help.shopify.com/en/api/reference/products/product_variant).