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Thank you all for your answers, Disabling the variations will solve the problem temporarily, until I can figure a way of solving it automatically…
it has to do with modifying the way the theme shows which product-variables will be shown in the product drop down menu.
I’ve tried looking for the right js file, that handle the drop-down menu script, but couldn’t find it (the script, nor the file where the script is). So I’m stuck at the moment..
Thank you anyways!

Hei Steve,
I checked this option out and it looks like people will still be able to buy the same variant again and again, just as long as it’s a different order.. So it will not work in our case.

The main problem is to hide product variants from the ajax drop-down menu. For example on this product: https://www.rajatieto.fi/tuote/poytapaikka-1krs/

At the moment the dropdown menu shows only product variations with a stock of 1 or more.

So any idea where the ajax controls are? and how to program them to ignore backordered variations?

Thanks!

Thank you for your help Nicola,
Our shop setup is like this:
We have subscription products, each one with about a hundred variations.
Each variation is a table at our annual fair. So each table can be sold only once, as a subscription. So we put the stock of every variation at one.
The problem is that when our customers try to renew the order, the shop tells them: your item is out of stock, and doesn’t let them renew the subscription.
So we need to enable the back order option so that they can renew their subscription.
The problem is once we allow backorders, than everyone can order any table, and there will be double bookings.
So the solution we found was to allow back orders, but to hide them from the from the frontend, if their stock is 0 or less.

If you think of a better way of setting up the shop, I’ll be happy to learn… ??

Thanks!