Stock control on choices

[Mick Jackson]

Does anyone know of a (simple) way to add stock control to choices in v5. As far as I know it can only be applied to products.

If you have a product with choices consisting of different sizes or colours it would be helpful if you could limit the numbers a customer could order in a particular colour or size.

For example I may have a product with three choices, Blue, Green and Red, all at the same price. I have 2 Blue, 5 Green and only 1 Red. I would like to stop a customer from ordering more of a colour than I have in stock, especially if the item is being discontinued.

Perhaps this is available in a later version of Catalog?

[Jan]

The component stock control in V5 is much the same as in V7, you define a component against the product and add attributes and choices to the component, you also create hidden products to represent each stock item and enable stock control for the hidden products, you can then go back to the component details and go the permutations tab, go along to the end and you can associate the hidden product with the permutation and then whenever you sell one of the items the hidden product stock levels will be updated. What you can't do easily is show quantities in stock against the choices or take choices out of stock automatically.

The version of V5 I checked this out on was 5.1.2 by the way.

Regards,

[Mick Jackson]

Thanks Jan

A bit too involved for the number of items I wanted to apply this to, but might try it on one or two of the faster selling 'discontinued lines' and see how it goes.

[Jan]

We have a tool to do this automatically for V6 and V7, I haven't tried it with V5 but if you were interested in buying it I could take a look (it is one of our more expensive products because it is so so complicated - £350). You would still have to go through adding components (which is quite quick to do if you use ctrl-x to cut the attribute, then add the component and use ctrl-v to put the attribute back in).

Cheers,

[Mick Jackson]

Thanks Jan, don't think it would be possible as I import data direct from an Excel spreadsheet and your software would work directly on the Catalog files, making for duplication of work. Also I do not think it would be cost effective in my case.

Might try your original 'hidden product' solution on a number of key items.

Thanks anyway for your interest.