Ordering out of stock products

[pglock]

We have a mildly modified MS2 installation. We have a regular problem with customers who order products that are shown as out of stock. The behaviour we want is to give the option for current products that are at zero inventory to be orderable, with the '*** out of stock' warning, but products that are set as Out of Stock on the individual product page (i.e. the red button is showing on the Admin -> Catalog -> Categories / Products page) are not shown in the catalog.

 

Any ideas how to achieve this?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Peter Glock

Splat Cooking Parties

[Flyer5]

We have a mildly modified MS2 installation. We have a regular problem with customers who order products that are shown as out of stock. The behaviour we want is to give the option for current products that are at zero inventory to be orderable, with the '*** out of stock' warning, but products that are set as Out of Stock on the individual product page (i.e. the red button is showing on the Admin -> Catalog -> Categories / Products page) are not shown in the catalog.

 

Any ideas how to achieve this?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Peter Glock

Splat Cooking Parties

 

 

Hi

Go to catalog/admin > configuration>mystore > stock

 

Set check stock level to true

set allow checkout to true

set the others if you choose to use them.

 

that should do what you want.

F5

[pglock]

Thanks for the fast reply, but that's how it is set up already.

 

Curiously, I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour from my own computer when I'm logged in as a user. 'Red' status products don't show for me, but some users seem to be able to order them. Any other ideas, other than deleting products that we don't want to show up?

[pglock]

/bump/

 

Thanks for the fast reply, but that's how it is set up already.

 

Curiously, I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour from my own computer when I'm logged in as a user. 'Red' status products don't show for me, but some users seem to be able to order them. Any other ideas, other than deleting products that we don't want to show up?

[♥Monika in Germany]

Thanks for the fast reply, but that's how it is set up already.

 

Curiously, I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour from my own computer when I'm logged in as a user. 'Red' status products don't show for me, but some users seem to be able to order them. Any other ideas, other than deleting products that we don't want to show up?

 

I've seen that recently with a client ... the issue was that 2 customers had the same item that had a quantity of 1 in the cart, and of course one was faster with confirming the order ...