attribute quantity box

[motherthemother]

Have the same problem. Customers are frustrated that they cannot see the qty available in stock for a certain size/color until they actually put it in the shopping cart. Anybody cares to help???

This is actually the one that I need - something to show how many of that size/color are in stock. A quantity box to let ppl choose the # of that attribute would be very useful too.

[Natallia]

Yes, I know what you mean..They said - this year, so hopefully within the next 6 months or though..

[FunkyPapa]

I'm looking for this as well. If you check this site and scroll to the bottom....they have an in stock mod of some sort and they are powered by Zen Cart as it states at the very bottom of the page. Any info on how we can get our stock displayed would be wonderful. Thank you.

[Natallia]

Yes, we have that mode already (stock by attribute mode) It's very handy, but the problem is that it allows you to see the qty in stock only after you add item to the cart.

[FunkyPapa]

Yes, I currently have the stock by attributes mod and like what I'm able to do with it so far....however if you look (click) here and scroll down.....there is a section labeled Currently In Stock... and it shows all the sizes and colors that they have in stock. The site is powered by Zen Cart, and you don't need to have anything in your cart to see it.

[crankyjim]

Hello all.

The site in question is my wife's site. I did the custom coding necessary to display the stock on hand.

There is no module available that I am aware of that replicates this functionality.

For those of you technically minded, it is really just a matter of filling two multi-dimensional arrays and looping through them to write out the html required for the table.

The first array is filled with the attribute type names and becomes the column heading contents.

The second array is filled with the attribute value names and includes the quantity as a final element within each array row.

The most difficult part of this was calculating the correct nested loops to ensure that we would always have only 3 "columns" of information and it would be limited to a maximum of 30 items per "column".

The display itself is rendered as an html table and is styled using css.

Hope this helps get you started.


Jim

[FunkyPapa]

Thank you.

[Natallia]

Hello all.

The site in question is my wife's site. I did the custom coding necessary to display the stock on hand.

There is no module available that I am aware of that replicates this functionality.

For those of you technically minded, it is really just a matter of filling two multi-dimensional arrays and looping through them to write out the html required for the table.

The first array is filled with the attribute type names and becomes the column heading contents.

The second array is filled with the attribute value names and includes the quantity as a final element within each array row.

The most difficult part of this was calculating the correct nested loops to ensure that we would always have only 3 "columns" of information and it would be limited to a maximum of 30 items per "column".

The display itself is rendered as an html table and is styled using css.

Hope this helps get you started.


Jim

Oh goodess, I have no idea what you just said. I think I am going to just have to wait till they come out with a module like that.

[Natallia]

Yes, I currently have the stock by attributes mod and like what I'm able to do with it so far....however if you look (click) here and scroll down.....there is a section labeled Currently In Stock... and it shows all the sizes and colors that they have in stock. The site is powered by Zen Cart, and you don't need to have anything in your cart to see it.

Oh I see... I don't think it's a module though, I think they just manually entered that stock list there and whenever somebody buys something they have to manually change the qty in that list. I do that too on some of our products

[crankyjim]

No, nothing is manually entered. It is completely dynamic based on stock on hand. We have too many products to stay on top of stock levels like that.