How can I get out of stock items to show?

[BenhamCollectibles]

I would like to be able to have the images for the out of stock items show so people know what they look like, even if I don't have it at that time. I sell baseball cards, and some people come to the site just to see what a card looks like. It takes a tremendous amount of work and time to scan as many cards as I have, so when something is out of stock, the image is hidden and could be used to help someone just by being visible. I know there has to be a way, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

[haredo]

You can do this, but the customers can still purchase

admin panel/ stock/ check stock level

1. set to false

[BenhamCollectibles]

I did that and it didn't work, so I turned it back to true. This is an option, but it doesn't change anything either way.


Products status in Catalog when out of stock should be set to
Show Products when out of stock

0= set product status to OFF
1= leave product status ON

0
1

I also know that I can make products show if I change the status individually, but that is crazy for as many products as I have.

[BenhamCollectibles]

I am assuming that most people from here that go to the store to see how it looks are checking the first category "2010 Topps Base Cards". When you click on that category, the first card that you see is 2010 Topps #2 Buster Posey RC with a sample picture of the Derrek Lee card. I just activated card from the admin manually the 2010 Topps #1 Prince Fielder card so you can see what an out of stock card would look like. No one can add it to the cart because I changed the add to cart box to an out of stock image.

I am hoping that the Easy Populate is not the reason that these out of stocks don't show. I absolutely have to use EP to upload all of these cards because there are hundreds of thousands of cards to upload when I get things where I want them.

I am also hoping that I didn't delete or alter something in the PHP back before I knew that was a bad thing to do. I am willing to fix the PHP if anyone has any ideas what file this option would be located in.

[Ajeh]

Make sure In Stock (products_status = 1) is turned on ...

Make sure Stock (products_quantity = 0) is set to 0 ...

Make sure that you have configured in the Stock setting is set to 1:

Products status in Catalog when out of stock should be set to
Show Products when out of stock

0= set product status to OFF
1= leave product status ON

Now items that sell to <= 0 will be set to show the Sold Out button automatically on Add to Cart and Buy Now buttons/input boxes ...

NOTE: Stock tracking must be turned on ...
i

[BenhamCollectibles]

Ajeh, I am sure that all of these things are set correctly, but I noticed that you stated (in red below) that only items that sell to zero will display this automatically. It hasn't done this up to this point when something goes to zero, but more importantly, I need this to happen when I upload products that are at zero already. For cards, it is necessary to upload all of the cards in a set, and then go back to change the quantities later when I get some of those cards back in.

Make sure In Stock (products_status = 1) is turned on ...

Make sure Stock (products_quantity = 0) is set to 0 ...

Make sure that you have configured in the Stock setting is set to 1:
Quote:
Products status in Catalog when out of stock should be set to
Show Products when out of stock

0= set product status to OFF
1= leave product status ON
Now items that sell to <= 0 will be set to show the Sold Out button automatically on Add to Cart and Buy Now buttons/input boxes ...

NOTE: Stock tracking must be turned on ...

Hold on, is what you are saying all manual changes made from the admin? I need this to work from Easy Populate when a card is entered in as 0 quantity. But, I guess it isn't that hard to change after I did it yesterday. I can go into the sets through admin and just click on the red box and it turns green. It didn't take that long, but it will for sets that I am missing many cards for. I guess this isn't as big of a deal as I thought it would be. Thanks for the help Ajeh!

[Ajeh]

The products_status is based on what you import the Products as ...

If you import them with products_status 1, what you see on the screen as In Stock, and products_quantity 0 they will show immediately as Sold Out ...

The status is changed during checkout ...

When you add Quantity to the Product, the products_status is already 1 adding the quantity automatically will remove the Sold Out ...