Negative Inventory for specific products

General General Questions
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Is it possible to have negative inventory for only specific products? Not simply all products?

Also, is it possible to have buy in advance simple show 7 days from the current date? A product that is ordered can be made and shipped in 7 days but is not specifically in stock.

thanks

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I’m not sure you can do this with CS-Cart.



You can set buy in advance on a product by product basis. Backordering is a standard feature. If you set the Inventory to “Do not track” and the “in stock” to “0”, that will still allow you to order even if you have no inventory; The inventory, however, will not go negative.



That said, having an availability always be in the future would defeat the purpose of a buy in advance feature. I can’t imagine a feature where the availability date for a product is never reached.



What you might try is indicating that the delivery will take 10 to 14 days.

3

Thanks for the insite, that makes sense. Would it be possible for someone to pay a deposit until the specific product is manufactured? Then pay the rest in full when its shipped?

thanks

4

There might be a way to fudge delayed payments, but two payments from the same transaction … I think the payment gateways might see this as fraud: i.e. You’re using their info for a second, unauthorized transaction to steal money.



I still think the delivery time is a good idea if you can guarantee delivery.

5

CSC only has a global setting for negative inventory. This is one of the problems. Some settings are only global but the ability to override for specific products is absolutely necessary.

For instance: It is great to have negative inventory allowed for regularly stocked and easy to get merchandise. The problem happens is when you have product that you want to put on clearance with limited inventory that needs to be tracked.

The only way around this that I have found is to use MAX order Quantity for those products that you do not want to have negative inventory. The problem is that this is not automatic and you must adjust the max order qty manually when the product is sold and this may result in an oversold issue.

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Thanks for the feedback!

I’ve found it valuable and have passed it on to the developers so it may be implemented in some future releases.