Stock control!

[RuralWeb]

couple of different threads going on it.

There are loads of threads about stock control - it crops up all the time. Same questions - same answers

[pnagames]

Edward

you are wrong there. you do not need blooming thousands to do the stock control.

as it was pointed earlier in this thread all you need is Jan's program which will set you back around £60 (or £200 if you get the automation) and a computer with a connection that can stay on 24/7.

it is not the ideal but it is the best available.

[wjcampbe]

ActStocker also available at http://www.bcness-solutions.ltd.uk/a...ctStocker.html

Use this to set max orderable quantity equal to stock on hand.

[Jan]

I'm hoping that Jan's new version will prove better when I have the time to try it.

It should improve things in that it will only try to download/upload if new orders have arrived, it probably won't help you so much because you store is busy and I would expect that you have orders place continuously throughout the day. It can speed things up if you have several sites as well with some busy and some now because the quite sites won't try to download so often.

Regards,

[gabrielcrowe]

a question to actinic programmers listening in:

what _exactly_ happens when actinic changes a single stock level. is this in the cat files?

so... the drop downs on the html page and the cat file? is that it?

[TraceyHand]

the problem is that it takes so long to update the site when a sale is downloaded and this makes it impossible to run One Stop more frequently than every 30 minutes. During which time lots more orders can be made for sold out lines.

this is certainly the biggest problem without a solution, I agree

[gabrielcrowe]

perhaps some sort of mini upload is required? stock only?

[RuralWeb]

perhaps some sort of mini upload is required? stock only?

This has been suggested before but I seem to remember that is was not possible without all the html checks happening as well. But as you say it should be possible to just update the stock bits

[gabrielcrowe]

this would be true, only if the html didnt change, eg. the stock edit idddnt require the dropdown to be re-ordered.

in most cases, if stock runs out the html would have changed, and this means a full html check and upload.

[RuralWeb]

We have been here before and gotten nowhere

[gabrielcrowe]

dammit. you are so right.

[Darren B]

a question to actinic programmers listening in:

what _exactly_ happens when actinic changes a single stock level. is this in the cat files?

so... the drop downs on the html page and the cat file? is that it?

I can sense gabe is up to something here

[gabrielcrowe]

doh, rumbled.

[RuralWeb]

doh, rumbled

It will sell if he manages it

[Mike Hughes]

Presumably the HTML only needs to change if you want the 'out of stock' message to be displayed on the page rather than the 'buy now' button.

If you're happy with the message being displayed when the customer tries to order it (as happens now with choices, etc) then the pages HTML doesn't need to change.

In this case a 'mini' upload of the modified .cat (and .fil? ) files should be suficient.

Mike