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How can I ensure that quantity order is not over stock held?

Thread began 5/13/2009 12:56 am by lynette312402 | Last modified 5/22/2009 12:48 pm by CraigR | 2699 views | 3 replies |

lynette312402

How can I ensure that quantity order is not over stock held?

I have built a eCommerce website and want to make sure that the quantity order by a customer is not greater than the stock held is this possible and how?
I am using Dreamweaver PHP and have used eCart.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It is only possible with a small amount of hand coding. The concept is that you keep track of the inventory in the products table as well as the last date and time that the inventory was updated. Then you store orders in the database as they are made also keeping track of the date and time of the purchase.

You can then update your SQL statement in your catalog to remove items that are out of stock or display the stock available with a nested select statement to remove the number sold from the number available the last time the inventory was updated.

Then you need a small amount of hand code on the shopping cart page to make sure when they update their quantities they don't try to change it to a number greater than what is available.

There is an example of this technique in the PowerStore solution, which includes inventory management as well as many other features. You may want to purchase it as a working example of how to integrate similar functionality into your website if some of my description sounds too complex.

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lynette312402

We already have the super suite but I only want to limit the quantities being entered by the customer to not exceed the quantity in stock. I am capable of doing coding as long as it is not too complex. The database already contains the quantity available and is managed manually.
Many thanks

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CraigRBeta Tester

Does this help ?

Take a look at this thread, see if it helps,

showthread.php?t=272.

to see it in action, go to

Earrings-C1.html

and try and add 2 pairs of the same item into the basket.

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