Auto Inventory.
The Auto-Inventory feature helps the Merchant keep an accurate inventory count of their product offerings. When enabled, a successful order will result in automatic recording of the items and quantities ordered. If this should result in a quantity of 0, the item's, inventory status is automatically changed to the "back-ordered status" constant supplied in the wizard panel. The default is "Out Of Stock". When this feature is enabled, the Enter Inventory quantities in the Merchant Panel is also enabled. This is where physical inventory amounts can be entered. This function also automatically updates the item's inventory status.
Inventory fields and settings:
- Back-ordered Status (out of stock status). Enter a constant of your choice to reflect that the product is back-ordered or out-of stock in the field "inventory_status" of the product table.
- Available Status. Enter a constant of your choice to reflect that the item is available.
- Reorder Point. In the wizard panel, supply a default reorder point for items. This field is used for criteria for the reorder report and may be specified for each item.
- Reorder Lead Time. In the wizard panel, supply a default reorder lead time for items. This field is for display or export purposes only and may be specified for each item.
- Backorder Action. There are 3 choices to dictate how the checkout process will treat backordered items.
- None (nothing special happens)
- Order item is marked as backordered and price is added to the order total.
- Mark as backordered and price is not added to the order total.
- Do not allow ordering. Checkout procedure will leave out of order and provide an out of stock message.
- Inventory Status. (Product table) In addition to the backorder status and available status, you may supply your own status code here, but will not be recognized by the scripts.
- Item Status. (Order Items table). This field reflects the action that was taken at checkout time and can be changed in the Merchant Control Panel using the order status screen.
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