How to make a common stock pool for multiple webshops

Allan Iversen

Posted on 10/07/2013 11:17:38

Hi,

I have a question regarding the ability to construct a common stock pool for multiple webshops in Dynamicweb. I got a sql table with the product numbers and the stocks. The product stocks aren't allocated to a specific shop.

I have a idea of validating the available stock with the requested amount with some kind of notification like "BeforeLineAdded" or/and "BeforeProductAdded/Increased and allocate the requested amount to the order through checkout.

What do you think about this? Anyone who have done something like this before? Any standard approach to this? I am receptive to any ideas :-)

- Allan

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Nuno Aguiar

Posted on 10/07/2013 11:28:08

Hi Allan,

We have a webshop with a similar configuration.

Why do you even "duplicate" products? Why not create them in a webshop, and them just add them to groups of multiple shops. This way you have 1 product, 1 stock management, 1 of everything. It's how we do it.

Nuno

Allan Iversen

Posted on 10/07/2013 15:54:47

Hi Nuno,

I think you are right - it shouldn't be necessary to duplicate the products in my case. I think I will go with this.

What about the validation? I would like to inform the customers that the requested amount isn't available and afterwards probaly decrease the amount to the max available. Which notification do you use for this?

- Allan

Nuno Aguiar

Posted on 11/07/2013 11:40:00

Hi Allan,

We do not use any notifications. We use:

- DataManagement for the product stock

- Ajax call whenever cart is loaded (increase/decrease and/or before payment) and check the stock again (just in case someone else purchases the stock in the meanwhile)

Best Regards,

Nuno

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