# Quantity format

#### Decimal separator

Comma or point. A comma is interpreted as a decimal separator only if followed by two digits to avoid ambiguity with a comma being used as a thousand separator.

The following notation will be ignored by Stockeo and will not update the stock of this product in your store.

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Shopify only allows quantity to be stored as an integer. When the quantity in the feed is a decimal number, it will be rounded in accordance with the mathematics.

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The above notation will update the stock to 3 and 4 respectively.

#### Approximate values

Sometimes in the feeds from some suppliers, there is a notation that the quantity of product is greater than a certain value. Stockeo then always sets the stock equal to this value, omitting the greater than and plus signs.

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All of the notations above are equivalent and will result in the following results:

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