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

[Malaperth]

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..

Possibly, but, from what I can tell, that add-on does not keep track of stock, and that is what I need.

Mal

[DivaVocals]

Possibly, but, from what I can tell, that add-on does not keep track of stock, and that is what I need.

Mal

You are mixing apples and oranges here.. your words:

my wife sells teas, and we want to provide a discount on a tea ball/infuser if you buy a bag of tea

Zen Cart OUT THE BOX allows you to keep track of stock.. so create your two products (tea ball/infuser & bag of tea), set your stock levels for each product and use a DISCOUNT MODULE like "Better Together" so that when a bag of tea is purchased the customer will be offered a discounted price if they then purchase the tea ball/infuser..

You REALLY can't do this with the default product attributes not without some serious re-coding of the default attributes management in Zen Cart.. This still isn't really an SBA modification..

[Malaperth]

Ok, was just responding to what Pottery House said to do, which was inadequate. Guess I'll try Better Together and see what happens. Thanks!

Mal

[k1ra]

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

Perfect! That did seem to get rid of the 'Out Of Stock' message next to my read-only attributes on all existing products!

[Danielle]

I just upgraded a site to 1.5.1, using SBA v1.5.2. They only have quantities set up for a few of their attributes. On their old site with a much older version of SBA, if attributes don't have quantities set, they default to the total product quantity and still allow checkout. On the upgraded site, if they don't have quantity for the attributes on a product, they show as out of stock. I'm not sure how to get around this? They have many products with attributes that don't require stock levels, so they don't want to have to go through and add stock to every attribute.

[potteryhouse]

I just upgraded a site to 1.5.1, using SBA v1.5.2. They only have quantities set up for a few of their attributes. On their old site with a much older version of SBA, if attributes don't have quantities set, they default to the total product quantity and still allow checkout. On the upgraded site, if they don't have quantity for the attributes on a product, they show as out of stock. I'm not sure how to get around this? They have many products with attributes that don't require stock levels, so they don't want to have to go through and add stock to every attribute.

I will be uploading an updated version to the plugins for the Zen Team to check soon. No sure what is involved for them, but I suspect it will take them a couple days based on their workload before they can get to it. In the mean time I think the version i posted in this thread as TEST 3 should work okay, it is almost the same as what I will be submitting. Main differences are the instructions have been updated, the version number in the files are updated, and the script to add attribute combinations in the stock pace is updated.

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...02#post1231102
stock_by_attribute_1.5.X_TEST_3.zip

[k1ra]

Perfect! That did seem to get rid of the 'Out Of Stock' message next to my read-only attributes on all existing products!

I have now noticed that when I add a product to cart, and the quantity is more than what is available, I get the *** in the Shopping Cart Display, but there is no 'Out Of Stock' notification on the Product Info Display. I am using radio buttons.

[potteryhouse]

I have now noticed that when I add a product to cart, and the quantity is more than what is available, I get the *** in the Shopping Cart Display, but there is no 'Out Of Stock' notification on the Product Info Display. I am using radio buttons.

Based on you description, this is correct.
There is stock available so the product info page will not show as out of stock. But if a customer orders more than what is available, they get the out of stock or low stock warning in the shopping cart.

You can turn these warning off if you do not want then, the setting is described in the instructions.
The setting is in the "Configuration -> Stock" page, (Check Stock level - Check to see if sufficient stock is available . Options (True/False))

Also note, the latest version is now available in the downloads plugin area. I am removing the TEST version, so the link in the forum will no longer work for those old tests versions.

[magz]

Hi Potteryhouse et al.,

I'm currently testing my FEC install and noticed that, while SBA continues to work wonderfully by displaying low stock in the shopping cart as appropriate, it no longer displays it on the order confirmation page the way it did without FEC installed. I upgraded to SBA 1.5.3 hoping this would help, but it didn't. I noticed the SBA code resides on the confirmation page between

<?php  echo $stock_check[$i]; ?>

and the product looping thingy, so I inserted it (the SBA code) in that spot in the 3 FEC tpl files that contain the above code (tpl_fec_confirmation_default.php, tpl_checkout_stacked.php, and tpl_modules_esl_ordertotal.php), but that didn't solve the problem. I am going to ask on the FEC support thread, as well, but perhaps Potteryhouse or someone else here can point me in the right direction as to what else I need to do?

One question that comes to mind is - does the SBA code in tpl_checkout_confirmation_default.php use any jquery file(s)? If so, which one(s)? FEC has you install the CSS/JS Loader, which changes how jquery is called, perhaps it's simply not calling the jquery files needed on the confirmation page...

Thank you!
Magz

[strelitzia]

Hi all,
Firstly, sorry if this has already been discussed.
Using the latest version of SBA from the downloads section on zen cart 1.5.1 which also has latest version of edit orders installed.
If you create or edit an order via admin the stock quantity for the variant is not adjusted, although the total stock quantity is.
Has anybody else experienced this issue?