Fractional Quantities

[skaterguy]

Hi Folks

I have played with several Carts system such as OSC, etc... I need a cart that allows fractional quantities ie: .25 of a meter for fabric , etc. The value could be anything from .25 to xxx.75

Can this be done in ZenCart? Do I need a mod? Wher are the MOD's/Contributions found?

In OSC is was able to get it to work with some coding changes:
1. Changed customers_basket_quantity in the customers_basket table to DECIMAL 15,4 format.
2. Changed products_quantity in the orders_products table to DECIMAL 15,4 format.
3. Changed products_quantity in the products table to DECIMAL 15,4 format.
4. In catalog/includes/classes/shopping_cart.php changed:

CODE
reset($this->contents);
while (list($key,) = each($this->contents)) {
if ($this->contents[$key]['qty'] < 1) {
unset($this->contents[$key]);

Any help would be appreciated.

Dan
Canada

[chief_wiggum]

This can be changed in Admin> Config> Stock, you can set the decimal place in there so the cart accepts decimal quantities.

Hope this helps, I had the same need as you.

[chief_wiggum]

Having said this, I am still not allowed to process through the shopping cart system.

Perhaps this will have to be a hack also.

Can anyone clarify how this can be done?

Many thanks,

[Ajeh]

You can use decimals on quantity if you:

1 turn on the number of decimals you wish to use

2 set the minimum/units in the Product to allow for these decimals

If the minimum is 1 and you are allowed to order .25 ... you need to be able to order with a minimum of .25 ...

[buzzville]

I have the same issue - we sell in minimum of 1/2 yard quantities. I've set the config-stock-product quantity decimals to 2, and all of my products sold by 1/2 yard have the minimum/units set as such. However, when the stock gets sold down to 0.5 yards, the product is marked out of stock. So, folks aren't able to purchase that last 0.5 yard of fabric or trim. Is there another place I need to fiddle with to make this work?

Thanks so much!

[Ajeh]

Is everything like this? Where 0 is the absolute bottom line?

Do you have your products show as Sold Out or do you have them set to products_status = 0 so they do not show in the shop?

[buzzville]

Thanks for clarifying Ajeh - I mis-wrote. I have Product Status set to 0 when out of stock. Is there something I'm missing to fix this?

[Ajeh]

Currently the reset on stock is < 1 but in your case you need <= 0 ...

This has been changed for the next release ...

You can edit the /includes/classes/orders.php and change the line around 688:

          if ($stock_left < 1) { 

To read:

          if ($stock_left <= 0) { 

See if that takes care of this for you ...

[buzzville]

Thanks Linda - that one seems to be working now. I just had to manually re-activate those products in the Admin section and all is well.

But, now I have a new problem (!) that I seem to have caused myself... When folks place a quantity larger than what we have in stock, it is no longer giving them the warning on the checkout page. Instead, they click on checkout and it just send them right back - an infernal loop. The warning was there before, but I must have done something to make it go away. Can you help me recover what I've done?

[Ajeh]

If you flip to classic does it fix it?

Do you have a click for click to produce this issue?