Rollk1 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Is it possible to have a product combination for discontinued items that’s only visible on the backend? For example, an item comes in blue, green and red. The red is discontinued, but I want the information, images, SKU, etc to be saved for reference, but not shown on the front end to customers. The combinations that are in production (blue and green) remain visible, even when out of stock, and display an "out of stock" alert. Essentially it'd be like having an enabled/disabled status for each individual product combination. I'm using 1.5.6.1 Any insight would be appericated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stottycabanas Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I don't think you can do this as standard. There are no data items in the PS database that allow you to establish whether a product combination is discontinued. You can make all out-of-stock combinations non-visible (via a setting under Preferences->Products). However you can't then have alerts for active combinations, but not for discontinued ones. Cheers, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollk1 Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Thanks for the answer. I'm thinking the next best solution would be to create an inactive "discontinued" product full of old items so that they're in the database but not live. You think there'd be a module for this... it's a pretty typical scneario, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaartenPol Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Got me wondering too, that this wasn't available. Would be great if it could be added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Dalton Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I'm on the fence about that feature, because right now PS has it built in not to allow purchase of an out of stock attribute, and that's good. I want the customer to know that the color or size is a possibility, so I don't want to hide it. Maybe what I want is a way to communicate more options to the customer. Information would appear to let the customer know the date of new stock arrival or even give the customer an option of email notification. That way, if a customer ONLY wants red and I don't have it, I still have a chance at the sale. If I hide the red completely, I have no chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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