qoh of master product not affected

[lea-ann]

Hi, we use SEOM POS and when a product with an attribute is sold, the attribute is deducted properly in MIVA, but the master product quantity is not touched. What have i missed in setting up the inventory tracking? We need to have the total of all attributes put in as the parent sku's inventory quantity so it hides when out of stock. Do we need to so something in SEOM so that master sku is deducted also?

[eMediaSales]

Re: qoh of master product not affected

Hi Lea-ann,

My understanding is that when you use inventory variant inventory tracking, you don't want to use parent item inventory levels. Because you don't really have any master product inventory itself, just the variants.

The attribute machine will take care of inventory on the site to make sure you can't order out of stock product. I think when all variants are tracked and the inventory on all variants is zero, customers will not be able to order the product.

Not to say you *couldn't* use parent item inventory, but I don't think it will stay in sync.

best,
james

[wcw]

Re: qoh of master product not affected

James,

If you set it up per Rick's video it works well. It does stay in sync. All of the product list queries use the parent product's stock status to determine if they show in the query. If you have it set to hide out of stock and it's stock level is 0, it will not show in the category list, product list or product search. Now if you do not have your store set to hide out of stock, it is not important. But many stores do set it that way.

You can see the synchronization at http://www.emporiumplus.com/BOGUS.html Note the inventory messages as you put items in the basket.

At one time I was going to add variant creation to the attribute import module so it would create the variants and sync with the master product. But when I saw there was a free gem for the import, I canned the idea.

[eMediaSales]

Re: qoh of master product not affected

Thanks Bill - good to know. Even though we wrote that Gem... even us old timers need an edumacation every so often! Maybe the issue for Lea-ann has to do specifically with inventory counts and Stone Edge for the master product.

[wcw]

Re: qoh of master product not affected

I really never thought about it until a store owner asked if I could change the power search and the ctgy and plst lists in tool kit. They really needed the products to disappear when out of stock. The complicated code needed to make that happen at the variant level vs the master product level would likely bring the query to its knees. The sync Rick did the tutorial on is the obvious way to go, but it is extra work. Creating the sync with the import that is creating variants would be easy enough; maybe another couple hours coding. But creating the whole variant import w/sync would not be worth the effort for those few stores that needed that extra feature.