[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Manage Inventory ## - **[hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile")** - [![hipodav's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/6429-hipodav) Less More - Posts: 13 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52669](#52669) by [hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile") *[Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52669 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* was created by *[hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile")* Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile")** - [![Mohamed Thelji's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar6861.png)](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji) Less More - Posts: 12953 - Thank you received: 1778 - - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52753](#52753) by [Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") Replied by *[Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52753 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* Hello Dav, I think that you can do it by managing variants of your product in your product page and controling the quantity of each variant. Hope this will help you a little. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86316 - Thank you received: 14276 - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52767](#52767) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52767 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* Yes, Mohamed is right. You can use characteristics for that: [ www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...html#characteristics](http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/integrated-documentation/19-hikashop-product-form.html#characteristics) With the "manage variants" button of the product edition page, you will be able to set the stock for each variant of the product. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile")** - [![hipodav's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/6429-hipodav) Less More - Posts: 13 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52782](#52782) by [hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile") Replied by *[hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52782 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* Hai Mohamed and Nicolas, Thanks for your fast response, appreciate it! Well, it's not exactly what I mean. Let's start with example. I have a webstore selling personalized tee. Let's assume that I have 5 pcs of blank t shirts as my inventory : 1. 1 pcs Size XS Color White 2. 1 pcs size S Color Red 3. 1 pcs size M Color Red 4. 2 pcs size M Color Pink I have 2 designs as my product. Later, I'll print the design into my blank t-shirt. So I created 2 product : 1. Product A - Design Car 2. Product B - Design House For each product, I create the variant. 1. Product A - Design Car Variant 1 : T-Shirt Size - XS, S, M, L and XL (Customer can choose the size of T Shirt) Variant 2 : T-Shirt Color - White, Red, Pink, Blue (Customer can choose the color of T Shirt) 2. Product B - Design House Variant 1 : T-Shirt Size - XS, S, M, L and XL (Customer can choose the size of T Shirt) Variant 2 : T-Shirt Color - White, Red, Pink, Blue (Customer can choose the color of T Shirt) How should I manage my inventory (blank t-shirt) to each variant? I have 40 variants, but I only have 5 pcs of blank t-shirt. How can I share the same blank t-shirt to each product variant? So when cutomer buy 1 pcs of Product A, XS, White, then my inventory of blank t-shirt (size XS color White) will also be minus 1? Do you get what I mean? Do you have any idea how should I manage the product, the variant and the inventory? Thanks much Mohamed and Nicolas. Regards Dav Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile")** - [![Mohamed Thelji's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar6861.png)](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji) Less More - Posts: 12953 - Thank you received: 1778 - - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52796](#52796) by [Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") Replied by *[Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52796 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* Hi Dav, My idea would be to : - Create ONE product named "Blank T-shirt" for example - set the quantity to **5** - Create a new caracteristc named "Design" for example - Add all caracterstics to your product named "Blank T-shirt" Like this, I think that you'll be able to manage your stock easly. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86316 - Thank you received: 14276 - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52874](#52874) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52874 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* If you don't want to handle a different stock for one characteristic of a product, you should not use a characteristic but an option or a custom item field: [ www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ct-form.html#options](http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/integrated-documentation/19-hikashop-product-form.html#options) [ www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...p-field-listing.html](http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/41-hikashop-field-listing.html) Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile")** - [![hipodav's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/6429-hipodav) Less More - Posts: 13 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52892](#52892) by [hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile") Replied by *[hipodav](/forum/user/6429-hipodav "View hipodav's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52892 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* Hai Nicolas, I'm trying to use options. But option only can have 1 characteristic. While in my case, I have several characteristic for my option. I make 1 product (Design Car) and 2 options: 1. Option TShirt Size (with 5 characteristic - XS, S, M, L and XL) 2. Option TShirt Color (with 4 characteristic - White, Red, Pink and Blue) While for inventory, the size and the color is related. So the stock should be : 1. TShirt Size XS Color White 2. TShirt Size S Color White 3. TShirt Size M Color White 4. TShirt Size L Color White 5. TShirt Size XL Color White 6. TShirt Size S Color Red 7. etc 8. etc | | 20. TShirt Size XL Color Blue Should I make these as 1 options : TShirt Size/Color? So in the options there will be 20 items dropdown? Is there another way so I can separate it into TShirt Size (with 5 dropdown - XS, S, M, L and XL) and TShirt Color (with 4 dropdown - White, Red, Pink and Blue), but the inventory management is still working? Thanks much Nicolas Regards Dav Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86316 - Thank you received: 14276 - - 14 years 4 months ago [\#52991](#52991) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: Manage Inventory](/forum/2-general-talk-about-hikashop/52669-manage-inventory#52991 "Hai Nicolas, I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory. For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc Each picture has their own variances. Picture A - Design Color : White or Red Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B. In each product I make several characteristics. For example on Picture A 1. Design Color : White or Red 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue For example on Picture B 1. Design Color : Green or Yellow 2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper 3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL 4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color). Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks Nicolas. Regards Dav")* Hi, An option can have more than two values. Just follow the instructions we have for them: [ www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...ct-form.html#options](http://www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentation/integrated-documentation/19-hikashop-product-form.html#options) Here is an example of uses of options and you can see that there is more than two values for some of them: [ www.demo.hikashop.com/index.php?option=c...ow&Itemid=91&lang=en](http://www.demo.hikashop.com/index.php?option=com_hikashop&view=product&layout=show&Itemid=91&lang=en) I invite you to look in the back end of the demo website to see how we configured that product and its options. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzItZ2VuZXJhbC10YWxrLWFib3V0LWhpa2FzaG9wLzUyNjY5LW1hbmFnZS1pbnZlbnRvcnk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. 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