AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Yokely,

We need to sell in another country, however we will be opening a warehouse in that country.

So two countries, two warehouses.

We want to be able to show what's in stock based on a specific warehouse, I.e. be able to set the instock/quantity count per warehouse(country) for each product.

What's the best way to achieve this? or has someone done this already? Custom coding is fine.

Thanks,
Karl

Hi Karl,

The product inventory cannot be set per warehouse. In AC, the warehouse is used to determine where the product will be shipped from. However, I suppose you could create 2 copies of each product, each using the respective warehouse and having it's own inventory. The trouble would be trying to modify all the storefront pages so users from one country would only be able to see products from that warehouse. This is where custom coding needs be incorporated.

Maybe a developer can step in with some additional ideas ...

Thanks for your thoughts Katie. I probably need to do something like this don't I..hmm this could get a bit messy.

I wonder how other people deal with this when they are expanding into another country? -> or maybe people are not actually setting up new offices/warehouses in those new countries.

Is it possible to hijack the code which loads product info/category info/etc (data loaders) and pass down an extra param (i.e. country a/b) and pickup an alternative quantity (customer field or whatever?).

That's probably got huge implications / regression risk.....hmmm.

i'll have to stew on this, hopefully some more suggestions come in, but right now I guess duplicating may be the best bet, i'll need to ensure that i still have single product pages for duplicated country ones...though canoc rel links will probably be ok for me there..hmmm

interesting...i better get this sorted given i'm sitting in that new country now trying to get it all going.

thanks again,

no luck no-one does this? no other ideas?

thanks, just checking.

Yes, it is possible to put code on the page to do that, but actual inventory destocking, etc would not be done based on that- it would be just for display unless you want to do more code throughout the checkout process.