Stock handling

[caspari]

I'm wondering if there's a solution for my situation:

 

- I'm working with money transfer and paypal.

- Products are only send when a customer has paid.

- 20% of the orders are not being paid due to different reasons (incl. paypal orders that are not finished)

- we keep not-paid orders 1-2 months in our adminstration before deleting (and stock updating)

 

What's the problem?

- There's a big difference between the real stock and the stock showing by oscommerce due to the fact that ordered products (but not send) are already diminishing the stock. Which is not a bad thing. You have an idea how fast some products are going to be out of stock.

 

But is there a way to split these two types of stock so I have also something that is counting the real stock (only deleting products from stock as orderstatus is set to shipped)?

 

Thanks!

[wheeloftime]

I'm wondering if there's a solution for my situation:

 

- I'm working with money transfer and paypal.

- Products are only send when a customer has paid.

- 20% of the orders are not being paid due to different reasons (incl. paypal orders that are not finished)

- we keep not-paid orders 1-2 months in our adminstration before deleting (and stock updating)

 

What's the problem?

- There's a big difference between the real stock and the stock showing by oscommerce due to the fact that ordered products (but not send) are already diminishing the stock. Which is not a bad thing. You have an idea how fast some products are going to be out of stock.

 

But is there a way to split these two types of stock so I have also something that is counting the real stock (only deleting products from stock as orderstatus is set to shipped)?

 

Thanks!

You could disable the stock updating from the catalog side and implement it within the admin order module and have it tied there to order status shipped.