What the Free Shopify Inventory Health Check Actually Checks

If you install Ghost Stock on the free plan, you get one manual scan. Just one. We think that's enough to show you something real, so it's worth knowing exactly what it does.

The scan itself

When you click Run Scan, Ghost Stock pulls your product and inventory data straight from Shopify and checks it for a handful of specific problems. It's not a vague health score pulled from thin air. Every point comes from something concrete in your store.

Specifically, it looks for things like:

• SKUs that are missing entirely, which makes it hard for anything downstream to match sales to stock reliably.
• The same SKU used on more than one variant, which causes reporting and fulfilment to get confused about which one is which.
• Inventory tracking switched off on products that look like they should have it on.
• Stock sitting at a location Shopify has marked inactive, meaning it shows as "available" but nothing can actually fulfil from it.

All of that rolls up into one overall Inventory Health Score.

What the free plan doesn't show you

This is the part we'd rather be upfront about instead of you finding out later. On the free plan you see the score itself, but not the detail behind it, meaning you won't see which specific SKU caused a problem or what the recommended fix is. That level of detail is part of Starter and Pro.

You also won't get live KPI tiles, CSV export, or repeat scans. The free plan is built to answer one question honestly: is there something worth paying attention to in this store? Not to be the ongoing tool.

Why we didn't just show fake numbers

A lot of "free trial" dashboards fill locked sections with blurred numbers or sample data dressed up to look real. We don't do that here. If a KPI tile isn't available on your plan, it says so plainly, it doesn't show you a zero or a fake figure that could be mistaken for the real thing.

It's a small decision, but it means when you do see a number in Ghost Stock, you can trust it's actually yours.