Equipment & stock

Wholesale, blueprints, import index, and warehouse checks

If goods do not arrive, a factory cannot deliver to a retail store, a blueprint install is planned over a stocked shop, weekly supplier limits block an order, export prices drop, a register will not place, or store inventory looks empty, trace the order unit, blueprint risk, weekly index, warehouse handoff, storage, display, current patch, and delivery job before buying more stock.

1. Confirm what the supplier UI delivered and where it delivered it. Imports and wholesale orders can be easy to misread because the useful question is not just money spent, but boxes or units, target business, and receiving storage.
2. If you are doing manual wholesaler runs, separate the real-world driving problem from the inventory problem. A car parked badly, a loading-zone mistake, or a delivery vehicle assigned elsewhere can make the order feel broken even when the stock logic is still normal.
3. When the help menu or supplier screen mentions a weekly wholesale or importer limit, do not rely on an old per-item table. Record the supplier, product, urgent or repeating order state, Smart Delivery setting, # to buy or # target value, designated warehouse, and the exact current UI warning before changing the route.
4. For weekly import or export-index questions, separate two checks: whether a supplier will accept the order this week, and whether exporting too much has changed that product category price for the rest of the week. The official 1.0 notes confirm the index effect, but the exact reset timing and per-product limits should be verified in the current build before publishing as fixed values.
5. If you are rebuilding store inventory targets after deleting routes, use weekly sales and one normal delivery cycle as planning evidence, then confirm the actual shelf or display that stocked out. Community spreadsheets can help estimate, but the current store UI and visible storage remain the proof for your save.
6. Check the receiving side before the selling side. A store can look empty because the goods reached storage but not shelves, or because displays are full of the wrong category for the current demand.
7. For electronics, gifts, jewellery, food, drinks, and similar stock, match the item to the correct display or shelf type, then watch one normal sales cycle before changing multiple variables.
8. Before installing a blueprint over an active business, treat current furniture and stock as replaceable. The reviewed blueprint reference says installation empties the selected building and sells existing furniture and inventory to make room for the new layout.
9. If you still want to use a blueprint on a furnished or stocked location, finish one normal sales and delivery cycle first, stop optional incoming orders, note the route and target-stock settings, and install only when you are comfortable replacing the interior instead of preserving every placed item.
10. If a cash register or service station will not place in a cocktail bar, theater, cinema, or other special business, treat placement as a layout and room-rule check first: correct item, reachable tile, business type, required counter or workstation, and current UI warning. Build 3680 fixed player work at theater/cinema concession registers, so register problems should be retested after updating before you rebuild the whole business.
11. For theater setup questions, do not assume a normal retail register solves every concession issue. Verify the food or ticket workflow shown by the current business UI, stock status, worker pathing, concession access, and whether Patch 2 is already installed.
12. If produced goods stay inside a factory or the factory will not deliver to a retail store, do not force another direct store route first. The reviewed factory reference describes the factory shipping finished goods to a warehouse, then the warehouse supplying stores or exports, so trace one product from input storage to machine output, warehouse storage, delivery vehicle, target business, and shelf or export order. Stop before repeating orders if any link shows zero movement.
13. If the failure began after movers, an installation firm, 4 22nd St Warehouse setup, or a loaded handtruck action, update to Build 3682 or later before remaking routes. The official hotfix says it fixed the 4 22nd St Warehouse entrance, warehouse vehicles not unassigning after movers or installation, and shelves or vehicles becoming non-interactable after using a loaded handtruck.
14. For surplus goods in a warehouse, compare three destinations before exporting everything: the stores that can sell it, the import/export index for that product category, and whether production should pause for a week. Exporting can solve clutter, but the official 1.0 index change means bulk exports may affect later pricing.
15. For jewellery, cannabis, or other factory-specific complaints, verify the recipe inputs and output destination in the current build before copying a community workaround. A factory bug report proves the symptom exists, not the universal cause.
16. When factory income or product cost appears wrong, compare the accounting screen, unsold inventory, delivery timing, export/import index, and one full trading cycle. Do not present a margin formula unless the current game or an official source confirms it.
17. For factories and exports after 1.0, compare your plan against the import/export index before overproducing one product. The official 1.0 notes say exported goods can lower the import/export price for the rest of that week, so bulk output needs a weekly check instead of a fixed old-margin rule.
18. When products fail to arrive at a warehouse or a wholesale order says completed but shelves are empty, preserve the save, restart the game client once, update to Build 3680 or later, and document the supplier, destination, order size, delivery job, and screen where it failed before trying community workarounds.