Binding refused

Every Shopify-linked raw material is tied to one Shopify inventory item — the record Shopify keeps stock against. If that record stops accepting updates, Assemblified can no longer move the material’s stock, and it tells you so on the material itself: a red Shopify refused the last stock update for this material banner on the material page, and a red Binding refused badge on its row in the materials list.

What it means

Assemblified sent a stock update for this material and Shopify permanently rejected it. That happens for two reasons:

• The variant was deleted. The product or variant this material was created from no longer exists in Shopify, so the inventory item it pointed at is gone.
• Inventory tracking was switched off for the item. Shopify only accepts stock updates for items it is tracking.

The banner quotes Shopify’s own words, so you can see which of the two it is.

Your stock numbers are drifting while this is up

Everything else keeps working — orders execute, the material is consumed in Assemblified, its history is written. What is NOT happening is the update to Shopify. Until this is fixed, the material’s stock in Shopify stops matching what Assemblified believes it has.

What to do

1. Open the material and read the reason on the banner.
2. If tracking was switched off: open the variant in Shopify, switch Track quantity back on.
3. If the variant was deleted: the binding cannot be repaired — retire this material (delete it, after checking what still uses it) or create it again against a live variant, and point the bills that used it at the new material.

It clears itself

The flag is not something you dismiss. The next stock update Shopify accepts for this material clears the banner and the badge automatically — so once you have switched tracking back on, or rebound the material, the warning disappears on the next order, build or restock that touches it. Assemblified keeps sending the update on every push; it never skips a flagged material.

Where else it shows

• Materials list — a red “Binding refused” badge beside the material’s name, in every view.
• The repair tool — support’s binding-repair scan lists flagged materials in their own group (“refused by Shopify — rebind or retire”) so they can be worked through in one pass.