Lamrith Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I have a very small business I am starting up, while I have access to a MFG entire product line I am only stock the more popular items to start off. However, I can place orders anytime and would like a way to take backorders thru the Website. Allowing out of stock purchases is easy enough by checking the option. BUT want to be very clear to my customers that the item is not in stock and ready to ship. Instock items the cart shows the inventory levels which is great, but when it is out of stock it shows nothing at all. Someone that is not familiar with the site would never know that they were back ordering the item. Is there a way to have it notify when looking at an item that it is out of stock and can be backordered? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Would ALL items marked out of stock be available for back order? If so, you could change the wording for "out of stock" to "back order" or something like that. You would probably want some indication of a time frame for shipment. If only some out of stock items could be had on back order, it would take extra coding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamrith Posted March 3, 2016 Author Share Posted March 3, 2016 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Dirty Butter said: Would ALL items marked out of stock be available for back order? If so, you could change the wording for "out of stock" to "back order" or something like that. You would probably want some indication of a time frame for shipment. If only some out of stock items could be had on back order, it would take extra coding. Yes I am only selling one type of product all from a single source and all are available to be backordered. The hope is to get a few backorders and boom I make minimum, or if not I buy a few for stock to meet minimum and thus fill backorders within 1-2weeks. Maybe it is the skin I am using, I am using Nota? When I have the store set to not allow out of stock purchases, it says out of stock, which is perfect. But when I check the box to "allow out of stock purchases" then it does not say that, it is replaced with the "buy it" and qty to buy field... BACK ORDERS OK, NO STOCK ON HAND: NO BACK ORDERS, NO STOCK ON HAND: NORMAL IN STOCK ITEM: Edited March 3, 2016 by Lamrith picture descriptions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I've never used the "allow out of stock purchases", so my comment wasn't helpful. Sorry. It IS going to take some kind of code change to get an IF stock level equals zero THEN wording like "Back order available" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamrith Posted March 3, 2016 Author Share Posted March 3, 2016 Hey Thanks for trying!! I might change the skin briefly just to see if it is a skin issue as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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