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[TA]

We get a flood of phone calls and emails asking if a product is in stock. To help reduce this, I am thinking that an "in stock" message or image that appears whenever the buy now button appears would help. Any ideas how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

[NightFire]

You can activate the inventor tracking module. This shows how many products there are in stock, if set in the product details.
Also you could edit products.tpl And use an if statement to show an image when in stock. Also was thinking about this idea. Will try to work it out when I'm back at home.

Edit: Copied this code from the product.tpl page:

{if $config.Appearance.show_in_stock eq "Y" and $config.General.unlimited_products ne "Y" and $product.distribution eq ""}
<tr><td width="30%">{$lng.lbl_in_stock}</td><td nowrap="nowrap"><span id="product_avail_txt">{if $product.avail gt 0}{$lng.txt_items_available|substitute:"items":$product.avail}{else}{$lng.lbl_no_items_available}{/if}</span></td></tr>
{/if}

You can just remove the <td width="30%"> and add an image before the code so it will say how many items there are in stock, or if the product is out of stock. You can paste the code in your products.tpl anywhere you want.

[TA]

I don't want to show how many products I have in stock. I just want to list in stock or "available for immediate shipping" or something similar. I already have inventory tracking enabled, but I don't show the quantity of items remaining. How can I just add text to in stock items?

[TA]

I ended up just changing the language variable for the buy now button to IN STOCK - Buy Now. It's cheap and dirty, so we'll see if this helps reduce emails and phone calls.

[inebriate]

{if $product.avail gt 0}
IN STOCK
{else}
BACKORDERED
{/if}

[TA]

Just add that code to product.tpl ?

[inebriate]

in product.tpl, find

{if $config.Appearance.show_in_stock eq "Y" and $config.General.unlimited_products ne "Y" and $product.distribution eq ""}
<TR><TD width="30%">{$lng.lbl_quantity}</TD><TD nowrap><SPAN id="product_avail_txt">{if $product.avail gt 0}{$product.avail}</SPAN>{else}{$lng.txt_no}{/if} {$lng.txt_items_available}</TD></TR>
{/if}

replace with

{if $config.Appearance.show_in_stock eq "Y" and $config.General.unlimited_products ne "Y" and $product.distribution eq ""}
<TR><TD width="100%">
{if $product.avail gt 0}
IN STOCK
{else}
BACKORDERED
{/if}
</TD></TR>
{/if}

[fearnothing]

We use a similar system on our store to display a message when the stock level is at Zero.

We are starting to implement inventory management using a bar code scanner, and I have written some basic external PHP scripts to allow us to 'swipe' goods as they go out or are received in, to update the inventory accordingly.

To make this work we need to stop the inventory from auto decreasing after every order placed, however if the 'Inventory Tracking' option is disabled, it also disables the check to see if an item is out of stock and EVERYTHING appears to be in stock. Doh!

Can anyone point out the code that should be commented out to stop x-cart.products.avail being updated on order completion? The option to 'Disable Out Of Stock Items' is not appropriate as we then lose out on search engines picking these items up, and of course browsing customers (our OOS message includes a 'please contact us for delivery estimates' link).

BTW I'm happy to post the PHP scripts if anyone is interested - perhaps some Smarty wizard can find a way of making them work from within the admin interface? Well beyond my level of expertise, I'm afraid!

[smek]

I am trying to use the same code but it doesnt seem to work. Maybe because i am using 4.1.6 ?

In the product details it shows "out of stock" so i know its out of stock...

{* show message if product is out of stock *}

{if $product.avail eq 0}
<p>this is out of stock</p>
{/if}

{* show message if product is out of stock *}

[TA]

Did you clear your templates cache?