Allow for orders to exceed maximum in stock value

Hi,

Is there a way to allow to add items in cart that would exceed current stock values?

I.e. my current stock is 3, client wants to order 5.

I can't go with "unlimited" stock list on all of my inventory as the availability of stock drives my shipping dates.

Thanks,

Karol

There is no option for that. However, you can setup the wait list system so that users can subscribe to the product and be notified when stocks are added back to the product.

Nicolas,

Is there any chance that you'll be revisiting this area of Hikashop?

Inability to order past the actual number of items in stock is really pain, if at all possible I would really welcome a switch that would allow that.

My current handling:

If item is X times in stock I have item X times in stock physically
If an item is "unlimited" stock it's either:
a) preorder
b) special order (I don't keep this in stock but allow customers to order from me)
c) temporarily out of stock (I have db trigger written then sets product quantity to -1 whenever product quantity would become 0)

Typical example of what's happening is:

I have item A 3 times in stock and item B unlimited times in stock (let's say a special order).

Customer wants to orders item A 6 times and item B 2 times - he won't be able to do that and is wondering why he can order one item and not the other.

Thanks,

Karol

Hi Karol,

This feature is in our todo list for a while.
However it's a heavy modification that would bring a lot of change to the current.
So since it's not one of our priority of development we cannot assure anything about it integration.
If it's something really important for you can still ask on the commercial jobs forum.

By the way, another option in your case could be to set an unlimited stock for your product and setup a custom field named "in stock" that you could trigger to yes or no.

Eliot,

I still need to be aware of my stock levels in hikashop so that option would not be helpful.

Thanks,

Karol

Is there any plan to revisit this area sooner rather than later?

While testing Hikashop 2.2.0 I've notice that "unlimited stock" quantity is (maybe properly) returned when using new In Stock filter.With my current work around your current ordering handling the filter is not usable for me.

I would like to know whether there is any improvements being planned in area of product ordering:

where stock to be ordered > current stock (based upon config this should result in quantity ordered being added to the cart)
where stock = 0 (again, based upon config, this should result in quantity ordered being added to the cart)

Thanks,

Karol

Hi,

The ordering of out of stock products is still on our Todo list, but we can't give a date.
We actually have many other features to develop.

Has this feature ever been added? It's critical to our shop.

Hello,

Not for the moment, that feature still isn't our priority for the moment as we have a lot of feature on our TODO list that are waiting and because that feature will require a heavy development in Hikashop but also in components that are integrated with it.

A solution can maybe be to add a another 100 quantity for your product, and then customize your product page views code so that it will display the product quantity minus 100, so your customers will be able to order product that are "virtually out of stock".

Is there a plugin hook that is called on stock quantity change? Then I can set the unlimited when stock quantity equals 0.

Many thanks

Hi,

No. The product triggers are actually not called when the quantity is updated because the product data in not loaded for efficiency.
However, you can use a mass action to change automatically the quantity of the products with a stock of 0 with the cron system and a trigger "every minute" :
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/167-massaction-form.html