Greetings,

We have an online store, with 3,000+ products, one of our suppliers whom drop ships seems to always be running out of stock on items, they don't supply an "out of stock" CVS file or anything like that. We don't know of any other supplier who carries the same product lines (vitamins, herbs, healthfoods, etc) and drop ships, so we are kinda stuck with them, and hoping they start supplying an out of stock CVS file.

We already have an "Out of Stock Policy" up and running, and we are tediously going through all 3,000+ one at a time seeing what is out of stock, and reflecting that on our website, however as I said this is very tedious.

We thought about just keeping everything shown as in stock, and email and/or call the customer and tell them when an item(s) they order is out of stock, however this may give us a bad rep, which is something we don't want or need.

Can anyone suggest a few ideas we can use and/or suggest a quicker way of doing this? We tried EZ-Populate but that is just as time consuming (I think so anyway.) If anyone knows of some EZ-Populate / CVS secrets on how to change stock levels faster please, do tell!

HELP!

Thanks in advance for any and all helpful suggestions and/or information.