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Status Future consideration
Workspace Inventory Visibility
Created by Guest
Created on May 17, 2026

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Add delta/incremental snapshot support to productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2 — return only SKUs changed since a specified time

Currently, the productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2 event publishes a full snapshot
of all SKUs every time it runs, regardless of whether those SKUs have had any
changes since the last snapshot. This means consumers must download, parse,
and process the entire dataset on every run — even when only a small subset
of SKUs have actually changed.

Requested change: introduce an optional delta/incremental snapshot mode that
accepts a "since" timestamp parameter and returns only the SKUs whose
availability data has changed since that point in time.

Example request behavior:

  • Full snapshot (current behavior): no timestamp provided → all SKUs returned

  • Delta snapshot (requested): since=<ISO timestamp> → only changed SKUs returned

This would allow consumers to:

  1. Process a dramatically smaller set of files and records on routine runs.

  2. Reduce COS storage read costs by skipping unchanged SKU records.

  3. Complete downstream processing faster, improving overall pipeline performance.

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

Our team triggers productAvailabilitySnapshot.v2 regularly to keep our
downstream inventory availability data in sync. The majority of SKUs do
not change between runs, but we are forced to process all of them every
time to find the ones that did.

This would reduce the number of COS files we need to read, the volume of
records we need to parse, and the total time our pipeline takes to complete
a sync cycle — directly addressing the performance concerns raised on our
support call.
  • Admin
    Sampson Wong
    May 27, 2026

    Thanks for the recommendation. We have accepted this as an enhancement request. The roadmap and timeline will be shared once it has been finalized.

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