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Thread began 1/09/2012 9:19 pm by chiakioda428401 | Last modified 1/19/2012 12:21 pm by chiakioda428401 | 1956 views | 6 replies |

chiakioda428401

item stock

just quick question.
using data assist with ecart5, inserting products on mysql database,
what happens if the item stock is 1 and the last one is added to the cart?
In other words, does the ecart look for the inventory column and updates it, and when it became 0 it automatically prevents from purchasing?

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Ian S

It really depends on how you design your store.

There are different solutions that you can put in place for this

a) A 'holding' table, that reserves stock items until purchase is made or a timeout occurs
b) Using Session variables to store details of quantities of items in your cart. The quantity shown to the user then subtracts the Session Variable from the the quantity in the database. This solution will only work for the current user though - on another machine or browser session the quantities won't take into account whats in their basket.

Cheers
Ian

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chiakioda428401

Hi Ian
Thank you for yourvresponse,
Can you be specific?
In the default of the ecart5, in other words if I don't don't make any change for item stock, how does it act?
In default it is linked to the database of the ProductStock column and update the item quantity automatically? And if the ProductStock column become 0, does the ecart prevent customers to add/or purchase the item we don't have?
We are using the database presented by webassist, eCommerce mySQL Database.
Thank you,

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

No, eCart will not manage stock for you automatically. Stock considerations need to be added manually.

The way that I have typically added stock management to eCart sites is to have a stock field and a stock update date field in the database.

Then since eCart will log any sales you can use SQL to subtract sales after the stock update date from the available stock without having to adjust the checkout process or what is stored during it.

Then you just need to update your product results, details, and shopping cart pages to account for out of stock items however you want to. Either not adding it, not showing it, or adding it with a message that delivery might be delayed.

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chiakioda428401

hi ray, thank you for the info,
I think it is better that I purchase the support ticket for that.
Do you think we can accomplish that through the support ticket?
Which support ticket should we use? premier or premium?
Our item is unique basically and only one in stock, so it it is sold we like to prevent customers to purchase, and preferably switch the add to cart button to sold out icon automatically. However some of the products have more than one in stock.
Right now, we are using the free sql database you present, Free eCommerce MySQL Database, and I think it has all columns we weed except for stock update date column, which we can add to it?
Thanks,

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I have done this before in a half hour premium support ticket, so that would be what you should purchase.

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chiakioda428401

hi ray,
thank you, we will buy the premium ticket after finishing the site.
we are now updating the database, and adding another function on the cart, making log-in page and email receipt etc, for which we might need another support.

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