Stock Levels & Components

[PortsmouthS&L]

Hi all, have seen multiple listings on here similar to what im doing but nothing quite covers it. I'll try and explain in generic terms so that any answers may be useful for other people.

Right...
I have 5 seperate Products (A-E), and a Package (F), that when purchased uses products (A-C), but offers the option of products (D & E) ie:

Product F
Component 1 - Linked to Product A (Always Used)
Component 2 - Linked to Product B (Always Used)
Component 3 - Linked to Product C (Always Used)
Component 4 - Linked to Product D (Optional at Cost)
Component 5 - Linked to Product E (Optional at Cost)


All Products (A-E), are available to buy, are in stock, have stock monitoring enabled, and have their own prices.

Product F has its own price that will be charged when purchased.


Now i am struggling to understand how actinic will respond to certain scenarios, and how to set stock levels.

Do i have to enable stock monitoring for this Product (F) as well or does its 3 main components (A-C) being in stock auto-set this?

If i set the Stock monitoring and one of the components goes out of stock does actinic, also disable this package (Product F)?

How will actinic respond if Products (A,B,C & F) are in stock but one of the optional products (D or E) isnt available, will it remove the option line, or just throw up an error at checkout?

All help very much appreciated.

Pete@PSL

[Robert_Taylor]

Hi,

The best way to find out would be to test it. Reproduced your scenario and testing it, will let you know the results.

Regards,
Robert.

[Robert_Taylor]

Hi Pete,

Following is what I was able to find out using the given scenarios...

Do i have to enable stock monitoring for this Product (F) as well or does its 3 main components (A-C) being in stock auto-set this?

Since all the components are associated to its respective individual products you wouldn't need to turn on stock monitoring for F since it would automatically take the stock from its associated products.

If i set the Stock monitoring and one of the components goes out of stock does actinic, also disable this package (Product F)?

No, but it would give you an error msg "We are sorry, the combination you selected is unavailable at present due to <product name> being out of stock." when F is added to cart.

How will actinic respond if Products (A,B,C & F) are in stock but one of the optional products (D or E) isnt available, will it remove the option line, or just throw up an error at checkout?

As long as the customer does not choose the optional product which is out of stock, they would be able to add F to cart, but if they select it, then they would get the same error as above.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Robert.

[PortsmouthS&L]

Hi thanks for your reply, my apologies for not looking sooner, but have had problems with our internet connection. (nothing ever works here).

Thanks for testing the theories for me, i was hoping one of the actinic team may of known how the program was written to respond.

Again thanks for your help.

Pete