Confusing Inventory Management

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

Hello,

 

We do not have an active inventory management.

However, for outlet products, we would like to set number of products in stock manually.

I sort of managed to do this, but:

• In stock notice is all colored red, except for products whom I have set up manually (those are green)
• The product filter thinks that nothing is in stock, except for products whom I have set up manually

Can someone please help me figure this out?
Thank you in advance!

[shokinro]

I think you have to manually set quantity for all products if you want to make it available for sale.

if the product does not need stock management, you can set a very large number (such as 99999999), so you do not bother to set it again but it will be available for sale.

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

Hello shokinro, and thank you kindly for your reply!

 

Customers are able to purchase items, as all products are set to Allow Orders by default.

However, prestashop treats all products as "out of stock" unless I specify available quantities manually, which is needed for some of the outlet products.

 

Also, if I were to specify available quantities manually, it will be displayed.
However, if choose to hide it using CSS, the outlet products that do need to display quantity, will not be outputted.

 

It's a difficult situation.

[shokinro]

You may consider use a workaround as following:

check the quantity of product and use this to hide the number of items available or anything else you want to hide.

 

{if $product->quantity < 100000000} show something {/if}

 

And set quantity those product does not need stock to a number great the above number, for example double of above number. The number should be bigger enough that it never reaches.

It is not a very good solution, but I think it should solve your problem.

It is not a very good solution, but I think it should solve your problem.

[shokinro]

It is not a very good solution, but I think it should solve your problem.

[shokinro]

It is product page, the file should be as following

 

/themes/YourThemeFolder/product.tpl

 

But be noted, the code is posted in previous message is not tested, you have to test that by your self.

 

For mass update, You may have to use sql statement via database tool such as phpmyadmin, you may be look for a 3rd party module.

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

Thank you kindly for your support.
I think this may be the solution to our problem.

 

I have two questions, though:

1. In which file exactly do I need to paste the code?
2. Is it possible to mass set quantity to 200000000?
   We have over 5000+ products, it's very time consuming to make changes like that.

Thank you.

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

Will try, thank you!

[HAIRWEBSHOP]

I used sql query to increase stock for all products, will try out your solution tommorow.
Thank you very much, this could save us a bunch of trouble.

[shokinro]

Sounds good. Glad it helped.