Inventory Conundrum

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   I've been actively setting up and tweaking our ProductCart install for a few 

months now, and I'm at a point where I'm pretty happy with it except for 

one issue I thought I could overlook, but can't...inventory tracking. 

What we need, ideally, is for inventory to be tracked from the moment a 

customer adds an item to their cart...so inventory totals would be debited 

when the item is placed in the cart, not at checkout. We deal in limited 

items and I'm trying to avoid a scenario where we lose sales because 

people are rushing to get to checkout with a high demand item and don't 

feel they have time to browse and purchase other items.

Anyone have a solution for this, custom development or otherwise? 

I would hate to have to leave ProductCart behind because of this issue as 

I've found it very fitting for our needs in so many other ways.

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rotokirby Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 22-April-2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote rotokirby Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Inventory Conundrum Posted: 19-July-2007 at 10:07am
	I've been actively setting up and tweaking our ProductCart install for a few months now, and I'm at a point where I'm pretty happy with it except for one issue I thought I could overlook, but can't...inventory tracking. What we need, ideally, is for inventory to be tracked from the moment a customer adds an item to their cart...so inventory totals would be debited when the item is placed in the cart, not at checkout. We deal in limited items and I'm trying to avoid a scenario where we lose sales because people are rushing to get to checkout with a high demand item and don't feel they have time to browse and purchase other items. Anyone have a solution for this, custom development or otherwise? I would hate to have to leave ProductCart behind because of this issue as I've found it very fitting for our needs in so many other ways.

ProductCart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135	Post Options Post Reply Quote ProductCart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19-July-2007 at 2:22pm
	The problem is that you obviously need an item that has been added to the cart to become available again if that customer leaves without purchasing. To do that, you need a way to trigger that event (inventory update) when the customer leaves. This is something that can be done rather easily using global.asa. We don't use global.asa to avoid conflicts with other applications, but you certainly can. Here is a good article on using global.asa http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_globalasa.asp We hope this helps!
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rotokirby Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 22-April-2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote rotokirby Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19-July-2007 at 2:34pm
	Awesome, thanks for the pointer in the right direction. I'm afraid I'm no where near a good enough coder to actually make the change, but I at least have hope now.