In the retail space merchants need the ability to track quantities of inventory for variants and even adjust pricing for specific variants of a product. This is not currently a capability. You can have variants, but you cannot assign them a quantity.

Example:

A retail store has a blue shirt that comes in sizes Small, Medium and Large. Currently within the Clover Inventory Management System, the only way to accurately track the inventory of these items is to enter each shirt size as its own item because variants do not have the capability to have the inventory quantities tracked.

So instead of having Blue Tee listed as the main item and then S, M, L as variants under it, you have to enter each item/size as its own inventory item (ex. Blue Tee- Small, Blue Tee- Medium, Blue Tee- Large).

This causes the inventory to be messy and leaves gaps in reporting. It would make inventory tracking more streamlined if variants had the option to track quantity or not and then allow the quantity to reflect the merchant's stock of said item.