Out of Stock AND Available for Backorder?

  • Resolved Tig2021

    (@tig1960)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    I have a question relating to this site:-

    https://woodland.m35design.co.uk/

    The client wants the following, if possible, but the question is now to achieve this? He says:-

    ————

    For each product, I would like to be able to mark it “Out of stock” but ALSO “available for back order” (& only one available), with the eight week waiting time clearly indicated to the potential buyer before they add to basket.

    ————

    Is this possible please?

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  • Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley (a11n)

    (@mikejolley)

    Backorders are still classed ‘in stock’ as out of stock items cannot be purchased, whereas with backorders you want to allow purchase.

    You can set to have it on backorder with notification so it tells the user it’s on backorder. Any other availability info should be added to your product descriptions.

    Thread Starter Tig2021

    (@tig1960)

    Thanks.

    Re backorders, we really need to be able to say that there is an eight week waiting time to the potential buyer before they add an item to the basket. Is there a way to do this please?

    Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley (a11n)

    (@mikejolley)

    Use the short description or product title so its clear.

    Thread Starter Tig2021

    (@tig1960)

    Thanks Mike, I’ll pass this on to the client.

    I am running into some issues related to the way WooCommerce is dealing with stock status and backorders since some of the revisions in this areas over the last 6 months. Here’s why:

    I used the stock status of instock and outofstock to show a user if a product is available in store. The outofstock class on products within the front end product list allowed to add an icon using css that showed the item was in stock (available in store) or out of stock (not available in store but available on backorder)

    Instead of backorder I changed the wording Ships in 1 day on the product detail page because we can drop ship all our products when we don’t have them in stock.

    Because of the new changes, I have lost the ability to sort my product by availability. I had to use _stock_status_as opposed to _stock as a meta key because using _stock for some reason doesn’t include variable products in the product list front end. Even when using _v_stock Some of the products in our catalog were hidden and I cannot figure out a pattern as to why in that case with _v_stock. It’s been difficult to deduce so that I can create a new workaround that fits with the new direction of WooCommerce as opposed to reverting to the old ways. Do you have any ideas on this Mike?

    Basically I had two good reasons for it being the old way that have been ousted by the new.

    1. Allows for a slick way to show products available in store with an icon in product lists
    2. Allows for sorting by ‘available’ products that includes simple and variable products, which I don’t believe there is any other solution to now.

    Thanks ahead for any insight on this subject!

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