Availability filtering

A cart full of items the store cannot pick is worse than a smaller cart, so availability is applied as a filter during assembly rather than as a warning at checkout.

The filter

Products whose stock does not clear the purchasable threshold are excluded from results before the agent ever considers them. The shopper does not see an out-of-stock item and then lose it later, which is the interaction that erodes trust in an assembled cart.

Substitutions

Where an item is unavailable, the agent looks for a comparable product rather than dropping the need silently. The shopper sees what was chosen and can swap or remove it in a tap.

Location scope

Availability is evaluated for the location the shopper is buying from. If your inventory is location-level, Neomi uses it at that granularity.

Note on this page

Described from the current implementation rather than from a published contract. Field names and shapes are what Neomi normalizes to today; our engineering team confirms the public naming when the reference is finalized.