How to Change Default Quantity from unlimited to 1

-- HikaShop version -- : 4.4.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.10.4
-- PHP version -- : 7.4.26

I have seen various forum posts along similar lines, but have been unable to establish how to set the default quantity number when adding new products.

The site is for antiques, and typically all products are in limited quantities, almost exclusively 1 of each.

How can we set the default quantity to 1?

Thanks

Hello,

We aren't sure to understand your needs well, and so 2 answers :
1. You want define a limited quantities per product :
=> From Main HikaShop Configuration => Products dropdown, select Products, then click the product name to edit.

OR
2. You want to limit the quantity added per cart/order for all (or specific product) :
=> From Main HikaShop Configuration => Products dropdown, select Limit, then click the product name to edit.
See this tutorial to learn more about the limit feature


Hope this will help you to achieved what you need.
Regards

We would like the default value for quantity to = 1 when creating a New Product.

Currently the default value is Unlimited, which if the user fails to change when creating a new product will cause a problem as there will always only be one item for sale.

Hi,

You can edit the file product / form.php via the menu Display>Views.
There, at the beginning, you can add that code:

Perfect, thankyou.

very nice,
also can you tell me same code for new variants quantity?

Hi,

For the variants, first, please note that if you leave their stock to "unlimited", the variants will automatically share the stock of the main product. So you might actually not need to do anything.

Also, the variants are generated automatically when you use the "add variants" button of the product edit interface.
And HikaShop will let MySQL set the default product_quantity based on the default value of that column in the database.
So if you want to change the default from unlimited to another value for variants, you can go in your PHPMyAdmin (access provided by your hosting), open the structure of the hikashop_product table, and edit the column product_quantity. There, change the default from -1 to the value you want and save.