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.

[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.

[Alexiss]

Hello Thanks for this mod it works just fine the only thing is it shows the out of stock/ sold out icon on item description and does not let the customer add the item to there shopping cart is there a fix or solution for this.

Thanks for your help..
lex

[gezuvor]

There is another setting in the store that allows for out of stock products to be purchased. It's not related to this mod...

[BarbieH2]

Hi,
I am testing this mod on a website that is not yet in use. Everything installed and changed perfectly. Thanks.

My question is how can I use this to also show items that when depleted will require a custom made order?

We have some products that we won't have made again unless someone submits a PO with a down payment and then there will be a 5 to 6 week lead time. It is more complicated and expensive than a simple reorder since custom orders require a minimum order of 10,000 pieces.

Other products are readily available for re-order and will work perfectly with the mod as is.

Are you working on anything with more elaborate options?

[christospur]

I'm pretty stuck with my special order products module.

I was hoping to be able to use it to allow certain items to be only ordered as a special order with a longer waiting time for delivery but I come across the following problems:

a) If you set it as -99 the item will be SOLD OUT
b) If you disable the SOLD OUT button coming on - then genuinely sold out products will still be available for ordering
c) There's no differentiation between 'Special Order' and 'Back Order' products - so its hard to tell if items in the basket are back order items or strictly special orders.
d) It's hard to tell what is a special order item without opening the particular product page in full (not visible from preview page).

Can anyone help with suggestions, as i'm in a bit of a pickle.

Pleeeeeease :-)