Hi everyone,
I am new on this forum and I am making a website with Virtuemart 3 and Joomla 3.6.0
I have a question about keeping track of my stock and the way the products are showing up on my website. I hope someone can help me. Sorry for the long story ;-)
Let's say I only want to sell white T-shirts in 4 sizes (S, M, L and XL). No extra options; just this.
I want to keep track of my stock for each size (for example S: 10 pcs, M: 20 pcs, L: 30pcs and XL: 40 pcs). Total stock is 100 pcs.
If I understand correctly there a 2 ways of doing this. This is what I did.
Method 1 (Size variant):
Custom Field – create new
• Custom Field Type: String
• Title: Size
• Card Attribute: Yes
• Card Input : Yes
• Description: T-shirt Size
• Save
Then I go to the Products Page and choose my white T-shirt.
• Product Status Tab
• In Stock: 100
• Custom Field Tab
• Custom Field Type : Size
• In the field I added the 4 sizes and fill in the prize of each size ($0 no extra charge)
• Save
This is how I want it to look like on my website. The T-shirt is shown on my home page and you can put in your cart right away. But it seems I can only keep track of the total stock (100 pcs) and not the individual stock per size.
Method 2: (Parents and Children – Multi Variant)
• Custom Field Type: Multi Variant
• Title: Please Pick
• Card Attribute: Yes
• Card Input : Yes
• Save
Then I go to the Products Page and choose my white T-shirt.
• Product Status Tab
• In Stock: 100
• Custom Field Tab
• Custom Field Type : Please Pick
• In the field I select : Use custom table and I named it Size
• In the field I added the 4 sizes
• In the field New Ramification I added 4 New Child products (S,M,L,XL)
• In the Product page of each Child Product I added the stock for each size (S: 10, M: 20, L: 30, XL: 40).
• So now I see the total stock of the Parent (100) and the individual stock of the Children
On my home page the white T shirt is shown and you can pick your size. But when you do so...a new webpage will open, named for example ' White T-shirt Size XL'. In this extra page you can put it in your cart. I want to get rid of this extra page. All sizes are the same colour; so there is no need for this extra page.
I want to combine the advantage of the Size Variant (choose size and straight to the cart) with the advantage of the Multi Variant (stock per size). Is this possible ? Am I doing something wrong ?
I hope someone can help me out, cause this issue is driving me crazy >:(
Best regards,
Jeroen
Welcome to the forum.
If you want to keep track of your stock your way to go is the 2nd.
Or you can also use a free 3rd party plugin which does that, with some extra features.
https://breakdesigns.net/extensions/stockable-custom-fields
Use Method 2: (Parents and Children – Multi Variant) but parent as option(orderable) so Parent is an option. Eg. size S.
@ Balai and Studio 42 Thank you very much for your answer and help.
So I will stick to method nr 2. ;)
First I want to try toe set the parents as an option (orderable). When and where can I do this ? It looks like it's nowhere to be found. :-[
Can you please help me a bit further ?
Best regards,
Jeroen
Use a custom field > type : generic child variant and at it to your parent product. After you can see this setting when you add this custom field in the product