check out linked to stock available

Hello,

I know with the Woo commerce plugin, you can set a product up with variations.

For example, say you have 1 sausage type for sale. The customer then clicks on that sausage to find out more, and it’s there that they get to choose the variation, and in your case, it’ll be the weight.

You can set different stock amounts for each individual variation and of course a different price. By doing this, the customer can only buy what you have in stock.

You can have multiple variations for any one product.

It’s very easy to set up.

Get Woo commerce here – https://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/

I think adding 4000 variations would be a bit of a task. there must be another way

You’re going to have to input your products no matter what system you use as when a product is chosen, your system will have to know the stock levels, and the only way to do that is to input them in some way.

There are various back end systems out there for stock control and ‘warehousing’ which can integrate with Woo commerce, but every single one of them requires a initial stock take to import.

Your product is the same as any other where e-commerce is concerned. For example, if you were selling t-shirts instead of sausages, you’d still have input the stock levels for all your sizes whether you had 3 sizes, or 30 sizes per one.

What will make it easier though is that with Woo commerce, you can create a product such as a sausage, and add all the weight variations and prices and so on, and then simply duplicate it and only change things like the sausage type and price and any other specifics. This will save you time.

Data input where e-commerce is concerned is always a bit of a grind, especially if you have a lot of products and are starting a fresh.

I understand that the products will need to be in-putted somewhere, I just want to make it an easier job.
There is a competitor website that you select a product by an estimated weight range but before you check out it has selected a product known to in stock within that range have a look at https://www.delifarmcharcuterie.co.uk/ and go through the process of buying a salami. this is what i would like. Thanks for the help so far

They’re all individual products though.

For example, the Hot Peppery Salami has an estimated weight of 100g which costs ￡4.28 See here – https://www.delifarmcharcuterie.co.uk/shop.php?id=101

That is a single product. So for your shop, you would have the following (examples):

– Normal pork sausage (priced by weight) 100g
– Normal pork sausage (priced by weight) 400g
– Normal pork sausage (priced by weight) 2kg

Each of those will be a different product. So if you have 100 different sausages, you might offer them in 5 different weights, thus making 500 products essentially, but you would use variations so your shop would only present the 100 sausages on the main page, and the customer chooses the weight on the product page, much like you choose the size of a t-shirt on a website when you buy one.

I emailed them and asked them how they work there shop, this is the answer just arrived
“We updated our checkout system a couple of years ago, it used to work by the customer placing an order request and we would then pick the products, email you back with the exact cost and then you would pay, this worked but it was very clumsy……..we now keep a selection of each product in sock in the shop, they are all weighed individually and have ID numbers to identify them, when you place an order it automatically selects the next ID number and calculates the price on this. Therefore when you pay you are paying for the items that have been selected for you.

I hope this clarifies how it works and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further queries.