Stock Management

Hi

I have realised that I need some kind of stock management.

When the admin adds a product, they submit a quantity of stock in which they have to sell.

What I need to make my store do is reduce the quantity of stock each time a product is purchased.

For example, 14 should become 13 after purchase is complete.

In addition I am not sure how it would work on the product detail pages. If an items stock reaches 0, then the item should not be purchasable.

In the same way, if a products stock field is null then it has unlimited stock, and the Stock Management is not used. (Mainly For Digital Goods)

The last question I have is, if an item has a stock of 1, what happens if a user increases the quantity of the product to 2 or higher on the cart page.

Thanks...

In the past when I have made carts that need this feature I added a dropdown box for the quantity with the loop limit set to the amount set in the admin, you could then use a simple if routine that shows "sorry out of stock" if the item reaches 0

On the admin side you could also set the stock limit to "no limit" so in the front end instead of a drop down you get a text field again controlled by a simple if statement

Regarding stock, after the cart has been completed you can add an update that subtracts the amount ordered from the appropriate column as in ($stock = ($stock - $purchased_amount)) but to do this you will need to set a unique Id for each transaction so if they leave the site to go to a payment gateway when they return the correct items can be found to update

Thank you for your help and I appreciate your input.

I am using express checkout so the transaction or payment is always processed on my website and the transactions always have a unique ID.

This is exactly what I want to do, however I can’t figure out how to add the update behaviour that subtracts the amount ordered from the Stock Colum

($stock = ($stock - $purchased_amount))

Is this something I do in the eCart Object Calculations?


Thanks in advance.

For this I would find it easier to add some simple PHP/MySQL but that just me.

1) You need to make sure the unique id get posted to the payment gateway and is also returned.

2) When the user arrives back at your site usually the "thank you order complete" you can add the code needed to that page.

3) Make a record set to filter the order from the orders db via the transaction Id sent back from the gateway, not the id for each item purchased.

4) Depending on how many matches or rows come back start a loop limited by the number of matches.

5) Inside the loop insert a update transaction eg..
($stock = ($stock - $purchased_amount))
$prod_unique_ref' = "#record set result for unique product id"
$updateSQL = sprintf("UPDATE products SET STOCK_LEVEL='$stock' WHERE Ref='$prod_unique_ref'");

6) This will go thru each item one by one and update the amount remaining.

There are more efficent ways of doing this but for just a simple update it does the job and it is easy to make and understand

Ok,

I am desperate to make this work but just don’t quite understand it.

I have several problems.

I am not completely sure how to create a loop, although I have tried. Details on what I have done are below.

Firstly, I am using express checkout so the payment transaction is always completed in my site.

When the transaction is complete I store information in two db files. Orders, OrderDetails.

Checkout works as follows, users add an item to their cart, click checkout, go to PayPal to enter details, return to my site, click checkout, payment is processed (Info inserted into database) and then redirects the user to the success page which has a order receipt.

I want to make the system subtract the quantity of each product purchased from the product stock value stored in my products table.

To do this I did:

On the checkout success page, I have a record set which joins the products, and order details tables.

I filter that based on the "eCart_OrderID" session variable.

Then and the very bottom of my code I tried to add your code (Not sure how to make a loop so not sure if this is correct):

<?php
($ProductStock = ($ProductStock - $DetailQuantity))
$DetailOrderID' = "#ProductID"
$updateSQL = sprintf("UPDATE products SET STOCK_LEVEL='$ProductStock' WHERE Ref='$DetailOrderID'");
?>

Key:

ProductStock: Products table stock amount
DetailQuantity: Order Quantity for each product
DetailOrderID: Transaction ID
ProductID: Products ID

Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you for your help

ok, can you paste the code from the success page so I can update the example I gave, the code was only an example it was not the exact code as this depends on your db cols.

Thank you very much, its very kind of you.

Here is my file:

Could you also send the page that updates the order db, as this page has no info for that in, with that I should be able to write it

Sorry, yep sure I can

Here you go:

Thanks

Ok, will go thru it when I get back into the office tomorrrow, it is 9pm here and I am getting that look off the wife! the one that says "put the laptop down slowly and back away!"

Will have it sorted np