Inventory control by Attributes???

[MicheleB]

Hi there, I 'm new here and new to using Zen Cart. I've figured out a lot of things on my own by trial and error, but I need help with my inventory/attributes.

What I want to do is have a single page for a product (say a shirt), and have the customer be able to choose the size and color. I have added these attributes to the product page without any problems.

My problem is that the inventory only shows the total inventory and I want to be able to have indivudualized inventory for each size/color combo. So instead of 10 shirts in stock (total), I'd like my inventory to reflect 1 black shirt in small, 2 black shirts in med, 5 red shirts in large, and so on. Is there a way to do this?? I have been wracking my brain trying to figure it out.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks so much!!
Michele

[vivaraquel]

I need to do the same thing but at the moment there doesn't seem to be a way to do it. There is adownload that's supposed to do it but I removed it after trying it and not been able to work out how to use it.

You can find it in the downloads section. If you get ti going, let us all know how it works.

[MicheleB]

Yeah, I found that download and it's working for me. My husband installed it and set it up. It seems to keep track of everything like it's supposed to. So it's working for my end of things.

The only problem/complaint I have is that it doesn't display the quantity in stock for each attribute. It's supposed to show you the available quantity in the shopping cart if you try to order more that what is in stock. That part of it isn't working, so you have to do it by trial and error to see what's actually available. Kind of a pain for the customer.

Let me know if yoy need help with it. I'm not really a computer guru, but I'll try my best.

Michele

[vivaraquel]

Thanks Michelle, I guess I'll give it another try and see how it goes. It would make it a lot easier when setting up products so I would really like to get going.

All you do is copy and paste the required files into their corresponding folders right? I got a direct deposit module going that way so I gues it would be the same thing.

[MicheleB]

No problem. Happy to help when I can (even if it's not to often). I guess you just copy and paste the files, I'm not really sure. My husband installed Zen Cart and the Attributes module. HE's my computer guy for that. But I had to figure out everything else about Zen Cart on my own (just by trial and error). I hope you get the Attributes module going.

Michele

[part-timer]

It doesn't seem to stop you from ordering more than you have in stock. for example if I have 23 total shirts but only 3 mediums, everything looks ok. If someone orders 4 shirts they are still able to check out ok....anyone else come across this problem?

[ktech]

Where do I go to download the files?