Hi,
It's often that we have customers requesting a way to control whether to check for stock or not, on the product card. The use case are products that are no longer in production, so there's a limited amount of stock to be purchased, while others can be purchased even if they don't have enough stock.
I know Dynamicweb has settings to control stock, but that's on the module, so we need to have it disabled and control it through a custom field and some js, plus some custom development, defeating everything that Dynamicweb can leverage.
Moreover here's some of the scenarios we need to solve regularly:
- Products that have unlimited stock
Always being produced, where a "status" is not really important - Products that have some stock but are always being produced
Meaning we can use stock status to say how "Available in 24h" or "Available in 1 week" - Products with limited availability
Products with stock, where we show "Available" or "Unavailable" accordingly - Products that have limited stock
Products that are no longer being manufactured
While items 1 and 3 are doable currently (at the same time), it's item #4 that makes this a lot more complex. It would be nice if we could simply go to the product card and check if that product has limited stock. And on that note, if we could also check if it's unlimited stock, instead of setting stock to 999999 and forcing integration or the customer to update that amount every now and again, would be better too.
Best Regards,
Nuno Aguiar