The ability to accept backorders for out of stock products would be great. Many of the products I sell can be re-stocked within a matter of days, which most people don’t mind. If they see “In Stock” they expect the item to be shipped right away. If they see “Backordered” they know ahead of time they are going to be waiting until we get stock in, and then make a purchasing decision based on that.
BACKORDERING IS A MUST!
Please…
I have been asking for this since I started with CS-Cart almost three years ago. The order management, in general, is weak compared to some competitors: no partial shipments, no (partial) invoicing with a consecutive invoice number not tied to the order, no backorders.
One workaround for you might be setting the “Avail since” date on the product and checking “Buy in advance”. The customer will still be able to buy the product and a message is displayed showing the date the item will be available.
Bob
Thanks Bob. Sounds like that might be a good workaround for now.
Any luck finding an alternative cart? I’m interested to know if I missed something when I was searching.
[quote name=‘kingsleypress’]Any luck finding an alternative cart? I’m interested to know if I missed something when I was searching.[/QUOTE]
Still searching. I’ve toyed with Magento which offers quite a lot in their community edition (including a very public roadmap) and some extensions to match CS-Cart functionality. Unfortunately, the cost of the extensions ends up exceeding the cost of CS-Cart.
CS-Cart is such great value which causes us to overlook some of its shortcomings. The problem is that the competition is catching up but you still need “this from cart A, this from cart b, etc” to match its performance.
Bob
[quote name=‘jobosales’]a message is displayed showing the date the item will be available.
Bob[/QUOTE]
Where? I’m not seeing that anywhere.
You should have something like this:
If you check the “Buy in advance” box, they will be able to purchase and the date available is displayed.
Bob
I think I’m missing something really simple here, but I don’t see any “Add to Cart” button on the screen shot you sent, so how can they buy?
Also, my site does not show the message about it being available on September 9th, even though I have the “Buy in Advance” button checked.
What I’ve done instead is to set the inventory to 0, but checked the box to allow negative numbers in inventory, which allows them to add the item to their cart. Then I’ve added a sentence to the top of the product description that lets them know the product will be available on September 15th and that they are essentially pre-ordering if they buy today.
However, I’d like to make your solution work if possible. I’m using the Artificial Casting skin and my cart version is 2.0.6.
The “Add to cart” button is missing in the screen shot because I did not have “Buy in advance” checked. Here is the same product with “Buy in advance” checked:
Just to be clear, you have entered a date in “Available since”?
Bob
Yes, I have entered a date in Available Since: September 15, 2009
Hmmm…not sure what it could be. I have tried it with the Basic, Electro and Artificial Casting skins and they all work. Have you made any changes in buy_now.tpl?
Bob
No.
I can private message you with admin login details if you have a minute to check my settings.
Have you cleared your template cache? I can take a look if you’d like but it sounds like you have everything set up right.
Bob
I lodged a support ticket after jobosales logged into my admin area and confirmed that I had this set up right.
Support fixed the problem. They said there was a bug in the 2.0.6 release of Artificial Casting skin’s buy_now.tpl file.
It’s now working as expected.
I wish there was also possibility of admin delivery time entry setup added to the current date plus the delivery time. or say delivery time 2 months after the recipt of the order.
I am adding to future-request
I already checked the Buy it now and given date but it is not working. Any help
[quote name=‘miracles’]I already checked the Buy it now and given date but it is not working. Any help[/QUOTE]
As mentioned above:
[quote name=‘kingsleypress’]I lodged a support ticket after jobosales logged into my admin area and confirmed that I had this set up right.
Support fixed the problem. They said there was a bug in the 2.0.6 release of Artificial Casting skin’s buy_now.tpl file.
It’s now working as expected.[/QUOTE]
The bug mentioned may have been in other 2.0.6 skins. It works in 2.0.8 so try comparing the code between your version and a stock 2.0.8 version. Look at the code containing $product.avail_since in /skins/YOURSKIN/customer/views/products/components/buy_now.tpl
Bob