djmarkm Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Hi Got a wierd stock Control/Product Specification Puzzle I need help on. We’ve set up a shop for a client that has been working fine for a few months, however they now want to activate basic stock control which is causing us some issues due to the unique way they sell their products. My clients products (bikinis) come in 2 parts (top and bottom). The tops & bottoms are available in 3 sizes, (small, med, large) and the shopper is able to specify separate sizes for the both parts (ie they can order a small bottom and medium top). We’ve set this up by creating 2 drop-down list attributes (Top & Bottom) each having 3 values (S/M/L). We then add the bikini product and use the Combinations generator to add the top and bottom attribute range. This generates 9 combinations (3 x top, 3 x bottom = 3x3 = 9). This solution works fine without stock control. When we try and use stock control (just basic not advanced stock management), it treats every combination as a separate product that requires a quantity. Now if your selling iPods the 3x3 combinations would equal 9 individual products but in our case it only really refers to 6. Consider the following scenario:- In a particular bikini product there is only 1 Med Top left in stock. In order for this to be available on the website we have to add a stock qty to all combinations with a M Top ie :- M Top - S Bottom M Top - M Bottom M Top - L Bottom If a shopper then purchases the M Top S Bottom Combo, that qty is decremented but the other combos are still up for sale even though the M Top is now out of stock. I believe the core issue here is my client is selling 2 items as a single product to the shopper, but wanting to treat them as 2 separate products for stock control purposes and I’m stumped trying to come up with an elegant solution to this. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmarkm Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 oh and it's PrestaShop™ 1.5.4.1 is thats any help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stottycabanas Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 It's not weird at all, djmarkm. There have been a number of threads which are variations of this same basic issue. I don't think it's sovlable with the standard PS functionality. The whole area around combinations, attributes, packs and stock levels is one where Prestashop could be improved. Good opportunity for a module to be developed, if there isn't one out there already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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