Is there any addon out there to enable ‘check stock’ button on product page so the client can see in the real time availability (or even to check it on page load), function that should go to the import feed link and check product id status if its active/instock or not ? Many clients may order products that are not in stock but they show in stock on cs-cart website due to slow price updated from csv which is not a happy feeling for the marketplace.
@CS-Cart_team is there any solution for this ? I have a vendor with 100k products and we enabled direct payments to the vendor and its total mess, it happens that the buyers pay the order but the seller doesn’t actually have stock and they have to refund the buyers, this is taking additional work for the vendors and they told us to fix the issue and check the stock live from the feed.
You can try breaking the import into several smaller, separate imports and running them at the same time. If your server has enough power to handle such a load, this can speed up the process of updating products. I also recommend that you use an import file that only has the ‘in stock’ field and the required fields to update the stock of products, so that all the other unnecessary data doesn’t slow down the import process.
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If the vendor is providing with single file live feed, how will I be able to split the file as all this process will take a lot of time - download, split, upload and then syncing for hours for 100k products, in all this time the vendor could be out of stock for certain products. I remember I visited one website some time ago and it had ‘check stock’ button which toke a few seconds to check the stock, I dont know how. Its very frustrating to show ‘in stock’ , client place the order only for us to send an email that is out of stock. To be honest this days all websites showing in stock they really have it. I don’t know how to fix this issue as it showing lack of professionalism.
One option will be a script that will show '‘check stock’ button on product page that will search the vendor website for that specific product code , open the link and check if specific div contains ‘in stock’ text, if so it should load ‘in stock’ value, if not to show ‘out of stock’ and disable add to cart button.
It seems that you have outgrown the standard functionality available out of the box and require a separate custom solution that only updates the stock availability for your vendors’ products and does it quickly.