Stock by Attribute v4.0 addon for v1.3.5-1.3.9

[Christian_Wagner]

Never mind. This has been resolved. Thanks!

Hey potteryhouse,

Using ZC 1.5.1 and just upgraded to SBA 1.5.2.

I merged everything over accordingly, however, now any item that has two dropdown options are being listed as out of stock, even if the quantity is high and the system recognizes that it has a quantity. See below for example links. Thanks!

http://www.piratespressrecords.com/s...set-p-393.html

http://www.piratespressrecords.com/s...irt-p-570.html

http://www.piratespressrecords.com/s...hirt-p-21.html

[Defanci]

I am putting together the next version (based on the test version I posted in this forum) to be provided to the "Plug-Ins".

Hi potteryhouse,

There is this free Phreebooks Open Source ERP (https://github.com/phreebooks/PhreeBooksERP and http://www.phreebooks.com/pb-forum/) which has a POS and ZenCart module that allow stocks from the Phreebooks inventory to be uploaded to Zencart and also download sales order from Zencart. I think this Phreebooks Plus Zencart is one of the best free solution for small business who has an outlet using POS and an online store and want to keep a single inventory for both. Everything is perfect for Phreebooks now except for products with attributes.

Currently, Phreebooks have it own product attributes but it has a problem when uploaded to Zencart. For example, if I have a product with 6 colors and 5 sizes, when uploaded to Zencart, Zencart will list it as 30 different product instead of 1 product with different attributes like Stock by Attribute. It a pity that the current version of Phreebooks can't work with Stock by Attribute.

In your next version, would you be able to add some connectors to link up your Stock by Attribute and Phreebooks product attributes? It will be perfect if this can be done and I am sure it will benefit a lot of both ZenCart and Phreebooks user.

[therummagehole]

Hi,

My attributes are only appearing on certain products. It appears to be on products that I have more than one attribute option on eg, size & colour

I haven't changed anything that i'm aware of, but even if I had, i would have thought it would effect all products, not just some.

The products that the drop-downs aren't showing on, seem to be picking up something in the background as prices are showing as 'starting at'. I have checked the source code, and the script stops at stock by attributes and is just blank, then carries on after.

I have checked the php stock by attributes as I was told of a bug that sometimes but random spaces, commas in but can't see anything unusual.

Does anyone else know of this problem and if it can be resolved? Would installing the new version maybe fix this issue?

Thank you

This is a link to one of the problem products: http://www.therummagehole.co.uk/~the...roducts_id=559

However, this product is working fine: http://www.therummagehole.co.uk/~the...&products_id=1

[Akasashasha]

Hello,

I'm running version 1.3.9h of zencart ... which version of the add on should I use ? can I use the latest one ?

thanks

[potteryhouse]

Hello,

I'm running version 1.3.9h of zencart ... which version of the add on should I use ? can I use the latest one ?

thanks

The most current version will cause some problems, I think you are better off using:
Stock by Attributes - Version: 1.4.14
That said, I recall that 1.4.14 does have a few quirks you should read through the forum to understand.

[k1ra]

I believe you can do this, Add a read only selection as the first size (use whatever text makes sense, I just used Please Choose as a same here) see the attached images.

I added this attribute and set to sort order 0.
Attachment 13332

This is how it will display on the product page, forcing the customer to make a selection.
Attachment 13333

This is also explained in the following thread.
http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...215#post921215

I just downloaded the most recent SBA from the downloads area. This is on a fresh upgrade of Zencart from 1.3.9 to 1.5.1. All products already existed before re-installing SBA for Zencart v1.5.1. This is the very first mod I have re-installed.

I have my attributes set up exactly as shown in your screenshot; however, I am getting an 'Out Of Stock' next to my display-only attribute. This attribute has not been added in the SBA page for any product. Do I need to add a stock level to a display-only attribute? Or am I doing something wrong?

[potteryhouse]

I just downloaded the most recent SBA from the downloads area. This is on a fresh upgrade of Zencart from 1.3.9 to 1.5.1. All products already existed before re-installing SBA for Zencart v1.5.1. This is the very first mod I have re-installed.

I have my attributes set up exactly as shown in your screenshot; however, I am getting an 'Out Of Stock' next to my display-only attribute. This attribute has not been added in the SBA page for any product. Do I need to add a stock level to a display-only attribute? Or am I doing something wrong?

The version I placed out for testing (in a previous post on this thread) should resolve the issue you described.
Also, I am working on a final update to this test version to be placed in the downloads. I hope to have that ready soon.
stock_by_attribute_1.5.X_TEST_3.zip

Please let me know your results. Thanks

[DivaVocals]

Hi potteryhouse,

There is this free Phreebooks Open Source ERP (https://github.com/phreebooks/PhreeBooksERP and http://www.phreebooks.com/pb-forum/) which has a POS and ZenCart module that allow stocks from the Phreebooks inventory to be uploaded to Zencart and also download sales order from Zencart. I think this Phreebooks Plus Zencart is one of the best free solution for small business who has an outlet using POS and an online store and want to keep a single inventory for both. Everything is perfect for Phreebooks now except for products with attributes.

Currently, Phreebooks have it own product attributes but it has a problem when uploaded to Zencart. For example, if I have a product with 6 colors and 5 sizes, when uploaded to Zencart, Zencart will list it as 30 different product instead of 1 product with different attributes like Stock by Attribute. It a pity that the current version of Phreebooks can't work with Stock by Attribute.

In your next version, would you be able to add some connectors to link up your Stock by Attribute and Phreebooks product attributes? It will be perfect if this can be done and I am sure it will benefit a lot of both ZenCart and Phreebooks user.

The ability to list 1 products with multiple product attributes is DEFAULT Zen Cart Behavior. All SBA does is allow you to track STOCK LEVELS by each attribute combo. Phreebooks is the issue here.. What you are asking after is REALLY a modification needed for Phreebooks so that it properly uploads products with attributes to Zen Cart as one product with multiple attributes..

[Malaperth]

Has there been any progress as to a product used as an attribute that needs to have the exact same ID each time it is used as I posted before?

Mal

[DivaVocals]

Just out of curiousity, does this version have the capability to have a product as an attribute? As in, my wife sells teas, and we want to provide a discount on a tea ball/infuser if you buy a bag of tea, so, as near as I can tell, the "attribute" on either the tea ball or the tea would have to be a product.

Mal

Has there been any progress as to a product used as an attribute that needs to have the exact same ID each time it is used as I posted before?

Mal

Sounds to me like what you need is a DISCOUNT module so that you can link products in a way that the purchase of one yields a discount on the other.. This kind of functionality isn't what SBA is used for. SBA is to track stock of product variants (attribute combinations).

I'd suggest looking for discount add-ons in the plugins section of this site or look for the "That Software Guy" website. swguy is the undisputed "Duke of Discounts" as he has the most and best discounting add-ons for Zen Cart..

http://www.zen-cart.com/member.php?22320-swguy

His "Better Together" module sounds like what you should be looking at..