Stock Status And Sku / Upc In Product Options

Hey Guys,



I'm trying to have a stock status indicator and UPC/SKU management per product option for my website, and obviously there is no simple way to do this.



I am planning to do it as so;



FLAVOUR (option)

Chocolate|1|9020290290902

Vanilla|0|9020290290903

Strawberry|1|9020290290904



So I would represent each piece of data, seperated by pipes (I guess I could use any other modifier, not just a pipe)



So each field would be;



FLAVOUR

STOCK STATUS

UPC/SKU



I plan to have 3 possible values for stock status. 0 for out of stock, 1 for in stock, 2 for discontinued



What do you think? Is this the best way to go about it? Am I missing something?



As far as I'm aware, there is only 1 field that I can use to manipulate per product options - so I think having some sort of seperater is the only way to do it.



Thoughts?