Support Thread: Product Special Order

[gezuvor]

This is the official support thread for the Product Special Order Mod.

What it does: Allows store owners to give alternate statuses to product inventory levels on the product detail page, specifically Special Order and Back Order.

Download Link: (pending upload and approval)

[Mountain Mama]

Did this ever become a mod? It sounds like exactly what I need!

[hey_you]

How's the progress of this being posted? I'd really like it!

[surrealcurly]

Hi Gezuvor,
This is a very useful mod, thank you for it. I'm having an issue, I don't see anywhere on the individual product page where I can select Backorder or Special Order. If a product qty is 0, on the 'Units in Stock' text it shows 'Back Order Item'. What I'd like to do is be able to mark a product either Back Ordered or available only for Special Order.
My cart info:
1.3.8
I had this mod and about 8 others installed by one of the other contributors to zen.
Here's a link to a product url with no qty:
http://www.roswelllivestock.com/merc...products_id=13
I've checked and double-checked and I don't see that we're missing anything. Does anything sound obvious?
Thanks much for your time.

[RobertG]

This is the official support thread for the Product Special Order Mod.

What it does: Allows store owners to give alternate statuses to product inventory levels on the product detail page, specifically Special Order and Back Order.

Download Link: (pending upload and approval)

I've installed the Product Special Order Module, and on the YOUR SHOPPING CART CONTENTS page the following text shows up

Your Shopping Cart Contents
You may want to add some instructions for using the shopping cart here. (defined in includes/languages/english/shopping_cart.php)

Items: 1Amount: $9.99

Products marked with SO are either Special Orders or are Sold Out.
These products will be ordered from our suppliers at the time of purchase .

Where the text in bold is the text below it should be entered. I can't figure out how to rectify problem, any help would be appreciated.

[rjspomer]

This mod works great and does just what I wanted. One note You need to have the catalog/product type/ edit layout/ show quantity in stock set to 1

I now have discovered that my payment notification emailed from PayPal shows that the order is a 'made to Order item.

HOW do I get this to show in the customer order confirmation email.

PayPal is pulling this from somewhere.

Help Please

[rjspomer]

This mod works great and does just what I wanted. One note You need to have the catalog/product type/ edit layout/ show quantity in stock set to 1

I now have discovered that my payment notification emailed from PayPal shows that the order is a 'made to Order item.

HOW do I get this to show in the customer order confirmation email.

PayPal is pulling this from somewhere.

Help Please

Is there any support on this? I would just like that the message of the item being special order carried over to the confirmation email sent out. I know it is the coding in the orders.php that needs to be added and I think that its what is tied to the cart page. But I am lost from there. Thanks for the help in advance.

I am chipping a few bucks for all the help on other issues that I have found from the forum.

Thanks

[rjspomer]

I am going to start a new thread hoping that someone may come to help me.

[rjspomer]

Hi Gezuvor,
This is a very useful mod, thank you for it. I'm having an issue, I don't see anywhere on the individual product page where I can select Backorder or Special Order. If a product qty is 0, on the 'Units in Stock' text it shows 'Back Order Item'. What I'd like to do is be able to mark a product either Back Ordered or available only for Special Order.
My cart info:
1.3.8
I had this mod and about 8 others installed by one of the other contributors to zen.
Here's a link to a product url with no qty:
http://www.roswelllivestock.com/merc...products_id=13
I've checked and double-checked and I don't see that we're missing anything. Does anything sound obvious?
Thanks much for your time.

Did any one get this worked out. I have the same issue. I have reworked the text and rename the special order to made to order but do not see a way to set the back order or in my case sold out.

[gezuvor]

Okay, I did a Fire & Forget on this module. Apologies to the community!!

I cannot edit my original post, so here is a link to the addon: Product Special Order.

Just added v1.1, which has tidier code, better instructions and has been confirmed to work in 1.3.9+.

Reading the comments in this thread, I realize that I never bothered to include in my ReadMe how to actually USE the modifications, so I have to apologize (again) for that.

In a nutshell, you need to set the Product Quantity to "-100" to trigger the Special Order flag. I didn't state this in my instructions! If you set the threshold to a lower number (-199) instead of -99, then set products to -200 in order to trigger it, etc.

I will see what I can do about modifying the email content for rjspomer. For RobertG, I don't follow you... please elaborate.