Hide BTO Items which are out of stock

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   Hello,

I've the following Question: Is there a way to automaticaly hide products (BTO Items) which are currently out of stock on the page where the BTO Product can be configured?

Our BTO Items are updated daily via product import. If an Item is currently out of stock, no price information would be available (base price = 0). It's not so good if that Item is still displayed on the customisation page and could be ordered for that price 

If it is not possible to completely hide products which are out of stock is there a way do disable the selection of them (grey them out) or anything else?

Thanx in advance for Informations about this...

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TechThinx Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 13-February-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote TechThinx Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Hide BTO Items which are out of stock Posted: 13-February-2009 at 9:02am
	Hello, I've the following Question: Is there a way to automaticaly hide products (BTO Items) which are currently out of stock on the page where the BTO Product can be configured? Our BTO Items are updated daily via product import. If an Item is currently out of stock, no price information would be available (base price = 0). It's not so good if that Item is still displayed on the customisation page and could be ordered for that price If it is not possible to completely hide products which are out of stock is there a way do disable the selection of them (grey them out) or anything else? Thanx in advance for Informations about this...

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: 13-February-2009 at 10:33am
	If we correctly understand what you would like ProductCart to do, this is the way the Build To Order system already works. Make sure that you are using the latest version, and that you have setup your store to enforce inventory.
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avalight Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 21-September-2007 Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote avalight Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15-February-2009 at 7:01pm
	How about if we are not using BTO or Apparel Add-on? In the basic PC, can out of stock items be hidden? We sometimes have one-of-a-kind items, which when they are sold, they are gone. I don't want to have to go and make the item "not active". Or is there a quick code change to mark the product "not active" instead of, say, sending me a notification via email of the low stock, which I suppose is the only way I currently see to do this...
	Curt

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: 15-February-2009 at 7:24pm
	Perhaps the following FAQ will work for you? http://www.earlyimpact.com/faqs/afmviewfaq.asp?faqid=534&source=KB
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avalight Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 21-September-2007 Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote avalight Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15-February-2009 at 11:37pm
	Yes, that was the FAQ I was looking for! I searched and searched for this , just used the wrong search term
	Curt

TechThinx Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 13-February-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote TechThinx Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16-February-2009 at 4:18am
	Hi and thanks for the latest suggestions. We are currently using the version 3.5b of BTO. Could you please tell us how we can setup our store to enforce inventory? In the store settings, we found the option "Allow customers to purchase out of stock items" and set it to "No", but the BTO Items are still displayed on the customization pages. We do not use the Apparal Add-On, are we blind not to find the "enforce inventory" option or do we also have to alter the code like described in the faq http://www.earlyimpact.com/faqs/afmviewfaq.asp?faqid=534&source=KB ? Many thanks in advance...

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: 17-February-2009 at 1:27am
	Make sure that the BTO settings are set to enable the store's overall inventory settings on BTO products. You should also make sure that the BTO product itself is not setup to disregard inventory. In cases like this, it's best to open a support ticket so that we can review your store settings. If you cannot find the problem, please open a support ticket.
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TechThinx Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 13-February-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote TechThinx Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19-February-2009 at 5:40am
	OK, we were blind... We looked for the Inventory Options in the "Store Settings", not in the "BTO Settings. We set the Inventory Settings there to use the Store Settings and the problem was solved. Many thanks for helping us out....

avalight Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 21-September-2007 Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote avalight Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12-December-2009 at 5:26pm
	I am looking at using this code change as described above that is in the FAQ about hiding products when stock goes to zero. If I make this code change, what happens to the products that are apparel products? Will they hide too? I don't want them to. I want PC to work in the standard "out of the box" way for the apparel products. We have both apparel products and non-apparel products. For only the non-apparel products do I want to have hidden in the storefront once stock level is depleted. We are using v3.51a.
	Curt