Send an email to the customer when new stock arrives.

[gabrielcrowe]

norman, that was beautiful :')

and yes i think a support ticket might be the way forward with this. i cent decipher the way things work in that js function. :/

[fergusw]

Likewise here Gabe, although in

updateStockDisplay()

there are the multiple lines that deal with the various OOS permutations in SD e.g. Associated products vs simple product.
I'd suggest that the "most" you would want to do is to embed a call to your JS function, passing the prodRef as parameter, in the 2 or 3 places withing the

updateStockDisplay()

function that deal with OOS updates on the product choices.
My concern would be that to make your App work in "all" possible stock configurations would require you potentially hooking your js function into several different locations......
also, not something I've spent a great deal of time unraveling......

[NormanRouxel]

There's a document SellerDeckAjaxAPI.pdf (not great readbility) that may help. Here's an extract.

7.1 Stock level
A query is made to the server to get stock levels when the page is first opened:
http://localhost:8080/cgibin/
SD2013/st000001.pl?ACTION=GETSECTIONSTOCK&SID=1&timestamp=1350310154118
Parameters:
ACTION=GETSECTIONSTOCK
Get stock levels for all products in the section.
SID=1
For this section
Response:
{"11":10,"7":9,"2":100,"17":9,"1":100,"18":10,"16":9,"13":10,"6":10,"9":9,"12":10,"14":9,"15":
10,"8":9,"4":10,"10":9,"19":9,"5":10}
This relates product reference to stock level for all products in that page.
Other possibilities include ACTION=GETSTOCK with parameter REF to get stock for a particular product:
http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/SD2013...ETSTOCK&REF=11
Response:
10

[gabrielcrowe]

it looks like

/cgi-bin/st000001.pl?ACTION=GETSTOCK&REF=4

Is a good start. it gives the right stock for sub items.

I'm having trouble finding child item when the dropdowns are used, unless i'm missing something.

in the 'Solitaire Diamond Ring' Dropdowns example in a stock site, at no point can i derive the child item when a combination is selected. How can I get that?

I also can't get component pricing to work properly. :/

#messy

[gabrielcrowe]

I've raked about for hours. its just no good, its so contrived and all over the place.

The 'API' does not contain the required information.

... calling support.

[gabrielcrowe]

...and they wont help me without a support contract.

I'm not buying an SD contract.

If any devs are reading this and can think of a clever and simple way to show a <div> when an item is out of stock then please lend a hand, otherwise, i'm out.

[gabrielcrowe]

Just called TodDesigns to talk about it. He's a quality gent. It looks like his plugin does some pretty nifty things under the hood, but I was hoping for something simpler than perl mods and such.

In the 4 days I have been faffing with this, I've completed the plugins for 3 other major ecommerce platforms. This makes me a bit sad inside about Actinic.

So I'm going to have a think about wether I should even bother with Actinic. :/

[malbro]

Just called TodDesigns to talk about it. He's a quality gent. It looks like his plugin does some pretty nifty things under the hood, but I was hoping for something simpler than perl mods and such.

In the 4 days I have been faffing with this, I've completed the plugins for 3 other major ecommerce platforms. This makes me a bit sad inside about Actinic.

So I'm going to have a think about wether I should even bother with Actinic. :/

Hi

Good to chat, and welcome back to the forum. Your system looks good and I am sure there are Sellerdeck users who would like to make use of it.

There are some problems with getting stock levels for components within the main Sellerdeck code but the plug in does have the data you need and does disable the add to cart button if you select a component that is out of stock so you can't add those items to the cart.

There are two javascripts calls that handle the real time stock, the plugin provides its own versions that deal with a number of niggles that people have with the current Sellerdeck code and there is a minor change to one Perl script.

I have done some work for other users that actually reads the product files on the site to extract information but that wasn't for stock. Personally I prefer working with PHP and jQuery for javascript as I come from an assembler/C/C++ background.

[malbro]

devs: is this function from actinicextras.js called whenever items are not available?

function DisableAddToCart(sAttrName)
	{

no its function updateStockDisplay(mapStockByRef)
{

but it has a couple of bugs that I have corrected for the plug in and you also need function getSectionStock(sURL, sSID, sProdRefs, sStockList, sShopID) {

again I use a modified version to get all the stock levels for components with hidden products

[guccij]

Please don't give up Gabe. As you know, I for one am interested in this plug in. Bummer that Support won't help even though it's an add-on which makes their product even more attractive

[Jan]

Hi Gabe,

Did you phone Sellerdeck or email, usually email support is available for anyone with a current Sellerdeck product - might be worth talking to Sellerdeck about becoming a dev partner again.

Cheers,

[gabrielcrowe]

I've had a sit down and a re-think of how this thing works and I decided that struggling against the individual carts 'out of stock' system is just too complicated. I opted for a simpler (and as it turns out) much more effective route and it's been better for the app in general. Thankyou, people here for allowing me to see the light.

There is no mechanism for disabling the button. It always shows. It's always there, should your customers need to 'subscribe' to a product. Very much like they would follow somebody on twitter.

When you as the seller wants to tell them something, you pick the item in Carticus and choose a reason. The reason can be anything, but drops in price, special offers, free gifts and the most popular so far: new stock.

It's a system where the user is kept in the loop and can 'unfollow' your item at any time. The result i've found is more sales for the testers so far.

http://i.imgur.com/r2HiHEF.jpg

There are install instructions in the wiki:
http://carticus.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Widget/SellerDeck

TL;DR:

I want some testers. You will get a thousand emails for free. Who wants to play?

[gabrielcrowe]

Nobody wants to give this a crack?

The system now has click tracking and a return on investment script that tracks sales on your email campaigns.

http://carticus.co.uk/

Let me know after you sign up and i'll give you personal tech support with integration and 1000 credits to go wild with.

[PJ ENG]

Nobody wants to give this a crack?

The system now has click tracking and a return on investment script that tracks sales on your email campaigns.

http://carticus.co.uk/

Let me know after you sign up and i'll give you personal tech support with integration and 1000 credits to go wild with.

Signed up last night user> paul @ pjme

[brucet]

This has been registered as a bug, I had the same issue and had this reply from the SellerDeck support team:
"I can confirm that this is a bug that occurs when there is more than one attribute - bug ref SD-221.

This is being fixed in the next maintenance release.