Woo Allowing Out of Stock Items to be Purchased

Hi @snoochy,

Standard behavior for WooCommerce (I’m running v3.7.0) would be to display this error message if an item in the cart has since gone out of stock: “There are some issues with the items in your cart. Please go back to the cart page and resolve these issues before checking out.”

Can you verify whether you have backorders enabled in your product’s Inventory settings?

Thank you,
Joey

Hi

I am also on 3.7.0

The products are set to:

Allow Backorders? Do Not Allow

Thanks for your help

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• Share a screenshot of the product setup in question
• Share a direct link to the product in question

Thanks!

Hi:

you can try this code:

/**
 * This snippet allows you automatically remove any out of stock items when the user views their shopping cart.
 * This would be in cases when users add products to their cart and come back it it later.
 * You can install this snippet in your functions.php
 * or
 * even better in as an mu-plugin in mu-plugins/orb_check_for_out_of_stock_products.php
 *
 * Blog post: https://orbisius.com/4308
 * @copyright Slavi Marinov | https://orbisius.com
 *
 */
function orb_check_for_out_of_stock_products() {
    if ( WC()->cart->is_empty() ) {
        return;
    }
 
    $removed_products = [];
 
    foreach ( WC()->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $cart_item ) {
        $product_obj = $cart_item['data'];
 
        if ( ! $product_obj->is_in_stock() ) {
            WC()->cart->remove_cart_item( $cart_item_key );
            $removed_products[] = $product_obj;
        }
    }
 
    if (!empty($removed_products)) {
        wc_clear_notices(); // remove any WC notice about sorry about out of stock products to be removed from cart.
 
        foreach ( $removed_products as $idx => $product_obj ) {
            $product_name = $product_obj->get_title();
            $msg = sprintf( __( "The product '%s' was removed from your cart because it is out of stock.", 'woocommerce' ), $product_name);
 
            wc_add_notice( $msg, 'error' );
        }
    }
 
}
 
add_action('woocommerce_before_cart', 'orb_check_for_out_of_stock_products');

put it in your child’s theme functions.php

Source: https://orbisius.com/blog/how-to-auto-remove-out-of-stock-woocommerce-products-from-cart-and-notify-user-p4308

Regards

@osckar thanks for sharing my blog post ??

@riaanknoetze

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@riaanknoetze
https://www.snoochy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/outof-stock.jpg
this shows my product in my dashboard

https://www.snoochy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/outof-stock-1.jpg
this shows my product in the cart, it’s out of stock but I did another test run and I as allowed to purchase this item.

This happens for all my out of stock items that have been left in a cart.

Thansk again

@snoochy – I see you’re running an updated version of WooCommerce, but your WC Database version is still outdated: WC Database Version: 3.4.2

Can you try doing a forced update? (WooCommerce > Status > Tools > ‘Update database’)
I’m not sure if that’s the issue here, but it certainly could be.

@jricketts4 Thanks. I have set that running now. How long does it normally take?

@jricketts4 Even though I set this in motion an hour ago nothing seems to be happening. I do have a message on my dashboard which ends with this “Note: WP CRON has been disabled on your install which may prevent this update from completing.”

@jricketts4 I tried a forced update as suggested a couple of times but it is just not working.

Hey there!

Does the database still show as being outdated when you go to the System Status Report?

You might need to check with your host if wp cron is disabled and you don’t know why. You can also check out this guide if you want to try enabling it: https://www.siteground.com/kb/disable-enable-wordpress-cron/

Hopefully that helps! Have a great one!

We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.