Hi all, I stock alot of items however there are many items we sell that we drop ship direct from the manufacturer and sometimes if the manufacturer doesn’t have it in stock then there is a delay to the customer in getting it so ideally i would like a way to show most products in stock but those that are custom order maybe state “normally shipped within 2 - 7 days” under the product information however I have no idea how to do this and have seen no information in the forums regarding any modification such as this.
Any help would be appreciated in this…customers have started moaning somewhat that it wasn’t described on the front page of the product that there would be a delay in the product arriving to them.
Kind regards
You could possibly use the “Available since” field in the product with the “Buy in advance” option checked. If you do not like the current messages displayed, you could change them (search for “product_coming_soon” in Content->Languages).
Bob
thank you for that jobosales…i had a quick play with that and looks like it could work however i do currently use that feature to announce products available for pre order.
If you are already using the field for pre-orders then you will need to need some kind of mod. You could probably add a field in the products table for shipping delay (e.g, 3-5 days) and then in the storefront display it instead of the stock when it is not empty.
Bob
sorry ima complete noob when it comes to modding im guessing ur talking add product field in sql database?
cheers
Yes, you would need to add the field to the database and also make some coding changes. Take a look at this thread which shows how to add a product cost field - you would be doing the same thing except you would use a different data type in place of decimal - something like VARCHAR(20).
You would then need to make the changes in the admin area (as shown). You would also need to modify the code for the storefront to display your message instead of the current stock availability…
Bob
[quote name=‘jobosales’]Yes, you would need to add the field to the database and also make some coding changes. Take a look at this thread which shows how to add a product cost field - you would be doing the same thing except you would use a different data type in place of decimal - something like VARCHAR(20).
You would then need to make the changes in the admin area (as shown). You would also need to modify the code for the storefront to display your message instead of the current stock availability…
Bob[/QUOTE]
Sorry what is “this” thread jobosales?
TY
[quote name=‘AmitP’]Sorry what is “this” thread jobosales?[/QUOTE]
Oops. Look at brandonvd’s posts in this post:
[url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/showpost.php?p=60862&postcount=7[/url]
Bob