Support Thread: Product Special Order

This is the official support thread for the Product Special Order Mod.

What it does: Allows store owners to give alternate statuses to product inventory levels on the product detail page, specifically Special Order and Back Order.

Download Link: (pending upload and approval)

Did this ever become a mod? It sounds like exactly what I need!

How's the progress of this being posted? I'd really like it!

Hi Gezuvor,
This is a very useful mod, thank you for it. I'm having an issue, I don't see anywhere on the individual product page where I can select Backorder or Special Order. If a product qty is 0, on the 'Units in Stock' text it shows 'Back Order Item'. What I'd like to do is be able to mark a product either Back Ordered or available only for Special Order.
My cart info:
1.3.8
I had this mod and about 8 others installed by one of the other contributors to zen.
Here's a link to a product url with no qty:
http://www.roswelllivestock.com/mercantile/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=50_51_53&products_id=13
I've checked and double-checked and I don't see that we're missing anything. Does anything sound obvious?
Thanks much for your time.

gezuvor:

This is the official support thread for the Product Special Order Mod.

What it does: Allows store owners to give alternate statuses to product inventory levels on the product detail page, specifically Special Order and Back Order.

Download Link: (pending upload and approval)

I've installed the Product Special Order Module, and on the YOUR SHOPPING CART CONTENTS page the following text shows up

Your Shopping Cart Contents
You may want to add some instructions for using the shopping cart here. (defined in includes/languages/english/shopping_cart.php)

Items: 1Amount: $9.99

Products marked with SO are either Special Orders or are Sold Out.
These products will be ordered from our suppliers at the time of purchase .

Where the text in bold is the text below it should be entered. I can't figure out how to rectify problem, any help would be appreciated.

This mod works great and does just what I wanted. One note You need to have the catalog/product type/ edit layout/ show quantity in stock set to 1

I now have discovered that my payment notification emailed from PayPal shows that the order is a 'made to Order item.

HOW do I get this to show in the customer order confirmation email.

PayPal is pulling this from somewhere.

Help Please :D

rjspomer:

This mod works great and does just what I wanted. One note You need to have the catalog/product type/ edit layout/ show quantity in stock set to 1

I now have discovered that my payment notification emailed from PayPal shows that the order is a 'made to Order item.

HOW do I get this to show in the customer order confirmation email.

PayPal is pulling this from somewhere.

Help Please :D

Is there any support on this? I would just like that the message of the item being special order carried over to the confirmation email sent out. I know it is the coding in the orders.php that needs to be added and I think that its what is tied to the cart page. But I am lost from there. Thanks for the help in advance.

I am chipping a few bucks for all the help on other issues that I have found from the forum.

Thanks

I am going to start a new thread hoping that someone may come to help me.

surrealcurly:

Hi Gezuvor,
This is a very useful mod, thank you for it. I'm having an issue, I don't see anywhere on the individual product page where I can select Backorder or Special Order. If a product qty is 0, on the 'Units in Stock' text it shows 'Back Order Item'. What I'd like to do is be able to mark a product either Back Ordered or available only for Special Order.
My cart info:
1.3.8
I had this mod and about 8 others installed by one of the other contributors to zen.
Here's a link to a product url with no qty:
http://www.roswelllivestock.com/mercantile/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=50_51_53&products_id=13
I've checked and double-checked and I don't see that we're missing anything. Does anything sound obvious?
Thanks much for your time.

Did any one get this worked out. I have the same issue. I have reworked the text and rename the special order to made to order but do not see a way to set the back order or in my case sold out.

Okay, I did a Fire & Forget on this module. Apologies to the community!!

I cannot edit my original post, so here is a link to the addon: Product Special Order.

Just added v1.1, which has tidier code, better instructions and has been confirmed to work in 1.3.9+.

Reading the comments in this thread, I realize that I never bothered to include in my ReadMe how to actually USE the modifications, so I have to apologize (again) for that.

In a nutshell, you need to set the Product Quantity to "-100" to trigger the Special Order flag. I didn't state this in my instructions! If you set the threshold to a lower number (-199) instead of -99, then set products to -200 in order to trigger it, etc.

I will see what I can do about modifying the email content for rjspomer. For RobertG, I don't follow you... please elaborate.

Hello Thanks for this mod it works just fine the only thing is it shows the out of stock/ sold out icon on item description and does not let the customer add the item to there shopping cart is there a fix or solution for this.

Thanks for your help..
lex

There is another setting in the store that allows for out of stock products to be purchased. It's not related to this mod...

hello I really like this mod How do I fix. Okay when someone ads an item to there cart that is special order it is set -100. Okay so the person checks out the product is no longer available to add the item to there cart -101 the item changes to out of stock.

Thanks
Lexxie

I want the link of "Units in Stock: Special Order Item" to be in Red. Only I can't work out how to edit it.

The code that defines that link goes like this:

<!--bof Product Special Order Mod  -->
  <?php 
	if ($products_quantity > 0) {
	  echo (($flag_show_product_info_quantity == 1) ? '<li>' . TEXT_PRODUCT_QUANTITY . $products_quantity . '</li>'  : '') . "\n"; 
	} elseif ($products_quantity < -99)  {
	  echo (($flag_show_product_info_quantity == 1) ? '<li>' . TEXT_PRODUCT_QUANTITY . '<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="javascript:popupWindow(\'' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_POPUP_PRODUCT_STOCK) . '\')">' . TEXT_SPECIAL_ORDER . '</a></span></li>'  : '') . "\n"; 
	} else {
	  echo (($flag_show_product_info_quantity == 1) ? '<li>' . TEXT_PRODUCT_QUANTITY . '<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="javascript:popupWindow(\'' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_POPUP_PRODUCT_STOCK) . '\')">' . TEXT_BACK_ORDER . '</a></span></li>'  : '') . "\n"; 
	}
  ?>
<!--eof Product Special Order Mod  -->

I have tried simply adding this

<span style="text-decoration:underline; color:#00ff00;">

http://intelligentworkshoptools.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=252_253&products_id=841

But that just changes the colour of the underline. I think it's got something to do with the way the CSS is inheriting, but I thought it should take the code that is closest to the tag?

Any help appreciated

Hi,
I am testing this mod on a website that is not yet in use. Everything installed and changed perfectly. Thanks.

My question is how can I use this to also show items that when depleted will require a custom made order?

We have some products that we won't have made again unless someone submits a PO with a down payment and then there will be a 5 to 6 week lead time. It is more complicated and expensive than a simple reorder since custom orders require a minimum order of 10,000 pieces.

Other products are readily available for re-order and will work perfectly with the mod as is.

Are you working on anything with more elaborate options?

I'm pretty stuck with my special order products module.

I was hoping to be able to use it to allow certain items to be only ordered as a special order with a longer waiting time for delivery but I come across the following problems:

a) If you set it as -99 the item will be SOLD OUT
b) If you disable the SOLD OUT button coming on - then genuinely sold out products will still be available for ordering
c) There's no differentiation between 'Special Order' and 'Back Order' products - so its hard to tell if items in the basket are back order items or strictly special orders.
d) It's hard to tell what is a special order item without opening the particular product page in full (not visible from preview page).

Can anyone help with suggestions, as i'm in a bit of a pickle.

Pleeeeeease :-)

After reading the questions in this thread, I was a little reluctant to try and install this module. But, I have found that if I follow all the steps in the included ReadMe file, that it works fine in my Zen-Cart 1.51 install.

I wish there was a way to hack the code a bit so the icon for BackOrder and Special Order were different, but the description is in there, and that works fine.

christospur, I set my stock to -100. I can tell the difference between Special Order and Back Order only in the item description. There is no indication in the shopping cart. I would have to assume that a simple php query (as done in the product_info page) would indicate in cart if the item is BO or SO.

I think that a little more tweaking of the plug-in, and this should be a good fit for me. I hope the author comes back to pickup the project and address some of the concerns.