SHOW products with 0 inventory but allow for back order

  • Resolved volcomjon

    (@volcomjon)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    we have a number of products which we would like to show in our catalog, however they have 0 inventory but are allowed for backorder.

    the issue is, we cannot use the “display out of stock products” option in woocommerce as this will enable a lot of products which we do not want to display (old, defunct products, for now).

    we do not want to add inventory to the products we want to show, as we would like them to be a backorder status (they are effectively pre-orders for products we do not yet have).

    the products are visible via their direct URLs, just not showing in the category pages.
    what function can I use to enable this.

    Ultimately, I want to show these new products throughout all relevant categories on the site, and allow customers to purchase.

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  • Hello,

    If “Hide out of stock items from the catalog” is ticked, there isn’t a built-in way to force show a particular product that’s out of stock.

    Instead, you can show all out of stock products, and manually hide specific products like explained in this article.

    Thread Starter volcomjon

    (@volcomjon)

    Hi @maykato – unfortunately thats not going to work, as turning on the out of stock products shows a number variants, which are displayed using a 3rd party swatch plugin.

    also the products we want hidden massively outweigh the products we want to show – therefore hiding each one would be very cumbersome.

    is there any way to trick woocommerce into thinking a product is in stock?

    Hi,

    is there any way to trick woocommerce into thinking a product is in stock?

    Not out of the box unfortunately, but you may be able to achieve this with some custom coding. We recommend getting in touch with a customization expert or one of the services listed here: https://woocommerce.com/customizations/

    I can also recommend the WooCommerce Developer Resources Portal for resources on developing for WooCommerce.

    You can also visit the WooCommerce Facebook group or the #developers channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack.

    Thread Starter volcomjon

    (@volcomjon)

    Thanks, but as a developer myself, I was hoping you may be able to provide a function or hook example that might be of some help?

    Hi @volcomjon

    I can leave this open for a bit to see if anyone else is able to chime in to help you out.

    Plugin Support Gabriel – a11n

    (@gabrielfuentes)

    We’ve not seen any activity on this thread for a while, so I’m marking this thread as resolved.

    Hopefully, you were able to find a solution to your problem! If you have further questions, please feel free to open a new topic.

    Cheers!

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