Product status options

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Hi



I am currently building my new site with CS Cart (at the local dev stage) and would like to see something like the following in a future release:



My products are 99% single quantity items (antiques).



When my customer places an order or makes an enquiry through the site I would like the ability to:


  1. Mark the product status ‘On hold’ for the customer for 24-48 hours (still viewable and able to purchase by another customer)


  2. Mark the product status as ‘Sale pending’ while their check arrives and clears (still viewable but not able to purchase by anyone else)


  3. Mark the product status as ‘Sold’ when the transaction is complete (still viewable but unable to purchase)



    I guess what i’m after is custom product status options.



    So, might this be a possibility or would it be more like a custom modification that I would need to hire someone for?



    Thanks in advance for any input.
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anyone ? …

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Can’t you do mostly this with the inventory tracking options? If a product is not sold it still has a quantity of 1 and can be bought by anyone. If it is purchased and has a quantity of 0 you can still have it viewable but not purchasable by others. If that order is canceled then the inventory quantity goes back to 1 automatically when you cancel out the order. You don’t have the status per product exactly, but this is trivial book keeping that you can do outside of the cart I assume?



If you need more functionality than that then you should probably get a custom quote for this from the CS Cart team or an independent developer. I don’t imagine that this would be added to the core product due to the limited demand from users for this functionality.

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Reminder to Mr. B that the text of the “out of stock” message can be changed to anything you want via the language variable (go to Content/Languages and search for “stock” without quotes).

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[quote name=‘adodric’]Can’t you do mostly this with the inventory tracking options? If a product is not sold it still has a quantity of 1 and can be bought by anyone. If it is purchased and has a quantity of 0 you can still have it viewable but not purchasable by others. If that order is canceled then the inventory quantity goes back to 1 automatically when you cancel out the order. You don’t have the status per product exactly, but this is trivial book keeping that you can do outside of the cart I assume?



If you need more functionality than that then you should probably get a custom quote for this from the CS Cart team or an independent developer. I don’t imagine that this would be added to the core product due to the limited demand from users for this functionality.[/QUOTE]



Yes, i imagine I will probably have to have a custom mod made for the functionality I need. I appreciate your input though, you’ve given me a simple fix as a stop-gap measure.




[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]Reminder to Mr. B that the text of the “out of stock” message can be changed to anything you want via the language variable (go to Content/Languages and search for “stock” without quotes).[/QUOTE]



Thank you, that’s a handy tip that i will probably use to leave an item visible with a ‘sold’ label



Cheers

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Reminder to Mr. B that the text of the “out of stock” message can be changed to anything you want via the language variable (go to Content/Languages and search for “stock” without quotes).



Where do I find “Content/Languages” so I can search for “stock” without the qoutes?

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Go to Administration => Languages => Use the search on the left-hand side.



Thanks,



Brandon

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Thanks Brandon.



The solution above by tbirnesth does not address my need for a separate item status of Future Release. In my instance I have over 300 new release items from one company alone. I have already added many of them to my items and would like to have customers pre-order these items and if they choose, pay for them now.



Thanks,



Steve