Product attributes without separate stock

[Administratоr]

Imagine I sell doors. I want the customer to be able to choose red doors or blue doors.

 

That's why I made "red" and "blue" an attribute. However, now I realize that prestashop requires me to define how many red doors I have in stock and how many blue doors (e.g. 50 red doors and 50 blue doors in stock). If I check out my "stock management" administration page, I am required to input red doors and blue doors.

 

It doesn't work that way in my shop, oh no! I paint the doos myself. I have 100 doors and whenever a customer buys a door and selects a color, I paint it and send it. So I use a stock of 100 doors and the colors shouldn't have an impact on the stock.

 

How can I force prestashop to work like this? One stock for my item (my door or whatever I sell: 100 items) and then the attribute that just has an impact on price and not on stock.

[stottycabanas]

Prestashop doesn't maintain stock quantities at attribute level. Have a look at product customisation where the customer can provide the required colour.

Cheers, Dave

[Administratоr]

Prestashop doesn't maintain stock quantities at attribute level. Have a look at product customisation where the customer can provide the required colour.

Cheers, Dave

Dave, I wish you were right, but unfortunately I think prestashop does manage product stock at combination level (x red doors, y blue doors). Unless of course I'm doing it completely wrong.

 

Could you point me in the right direction? I went to my product page, clicked "attributes", and made the attribute color with two values: red and blue. Next, the combination tool let me choose price impact for the selected attribute. So far so good, but the stock now also is reset to 0 and you're required to input the amount of red/blue doors.

[stottycabanas]

Sorry I did mean attribute level as distinct from combination level, but I was perhaps too quick to see this issue as being similar to one I responded to earlier today.

Yes PS manages stock at combination level and if you're selling red and blue t-shirts that's fine, but that won't work for you.

Customisation is probably your best bet, but that doesn't allow you to control the customer choice by the use of dropdowns like you can with attributes.

I'm not sure offhand if there are any modules out there which can address this, but it is a weakness of Prestashop in my view.

Cheers, Dave

[Administratоr]

Sorry I did mean attribute level as distinct from combination level, but I was perhaps too quick to see this issue as being similar to one I responded to earlier today.

Yes PS manages stock at combination level and if you're selling red and blue t-shirts that's fine, but that won't work for you.

Customisation is probably your best bet, but that doesn't allow you to control the customer choice by the use of dropdowns like you can with attributes.

I'm not sure offhand if there are any modules out there which can address this, but it is a weakness of Prestashop in my view.

Cheers, Dave

That's a weakness indeed... but I'm not complaining, it's free software after all. I hope they cover a lot of these imperfections in 1.6...

Another thing about modules: I've found some modules that fix the problem that I have. But I don't agree with having to use modules to fix such a basic thing. Sometimes I wonder if the developers keep some things "imperfect" in order to create a need and a market

to fix these needs. But that could just be far fetched on my end.

[danielee]

...I've found some modules that fix the problem that I have. 

 

Hi Administrator,

could you be so kind and post the modules that you found here in the forum please?!

Would be great!

Thanks in advance

 

P.S.   The only module that we found that can handle that scenario is "Single Stock Attributes V1.1" from presto-changeo.

Other than that we didn't find anything else... and in our case (similar to yours, yet different) this module only solves 50%.

[robdido]

I need the same solution. I would prefer if the customer can choose from the drop down. The only "free" solution would be to tell the customer on checkout to leave a note?

[danielee]

Well... I don't know what you need robdido,

but for the original question of this thread... there is a solution.

A module of the company Presto-Changeo, called "Single Stock Attributes". 40 USD.

 

This module keeps all attribute-stock levels at the same level.

e.g. in Administrator's webshop, the red and the blue doors stock levels will both be set to 100 units.

And then with a sale of 1 door, both stock levels will go to 99,...