Inventory display

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first... nice app... was wondering if you had plans on exposing dynamic inventory levels on product sites?

[E-junkie_Guru]

Are you referring to some method of displaying "XYZ units available" next to the cart button on a Merchant's page? As far as I am aware, we have no plans to do so, as that would be rather difficult to implement with the way our cart works.



Other, complete CMS/Storefront solutions that auto-build an entire site with templated pages for you could do that sort of thing much more easily, since that kind of software is far more than just a cart and actually manages your entire site content. If such software is generating entire pages on-the-fly based on your product database , it can dynamically output whatever product-related data you want, right onto the product page.



Our system does not manage your site content nor build complete product pages for you; you manage your own content and page design however you wish, and our button codes just add the cart functions into your existing pages.



Since our cart only generates a display of the cart overlay screen itself, I think the closest we might pragmatically accomplish would be reporting stock left in the cart screen -- e.g., after someone Adds to Cart an item, next to that item in the cart we could possibly find a way to show a "quantity left" figure for that item.

[eek]

thank you tyson for your answer



your first assumption was correct in what my needs were... and i like the fact that your application is simple... ecommerce can be very overweight these days... as all i have are some seminars i wanted to sell, which have limited seats available



your last solution is interesting also... but it would be fantastic if you could couple that with a list view of products with the inventory available for that product line... and then to make it all available on websites via an iframe, which could still appear in your modal window... or even directly embedded on the web page



i saw mention of a list view products suggestion... do you guys plan on pursuing that?

[richard]

That answered my question as well, but when a customer tries to add a quantity that is more than available to the cart, it just adds the available amount with no notice of what happened to the additional quantity. Is there a way to add a note to the item when added to the shopping cart saying that there are only x available for purchase or is there any kind of backorder feature?