I understand stock can diminish when someone places an order.
I need that to change so that stock is only subtracted from our inventory when we actually ship the item. I’d rather collect the order and go sub zero on stock then scare them off and buy from a competitor.
J.T., my assumption is that you would like to use the action of confirming shipment ("Item has been shipped” E-mail) as the “trigger” for the stock level change, instead of the last-page-of-checkout-process.
If this is the case, I’m looking for *precisely* the same feature.
Why not just allow backorders?
It seems there is an option in system--> config --> catalogue to allow qty below zero and another to allow qty below zero and notify the customer
Back-orders is one way but are customers actually informed they are back-orders on-screen? I’d prefer them to not know at all. Our type of products mean there could be a long time between ordering and delivering and there’s plenty of reasons why a sale wouldn’t actually happen. For those reasons, I much prefer stock subtraction to happen when we ship rather than when taking the order.
It’s also much better IMO for reporting. If you want to calculate what’s on the shelves, perhaps for the annual stock-take, why not count stock that actually is there?
Say for example you take stock on Jan 1st. It’s holiday season so orders are coming in but you haven’t sent them out. You had a 100 items in stock when you broke up for Christmas and Magento has been subtracting from it as and when orders came in. So by Jan 1st, your report says you only have 60 in stock but clearly, in the stock room you still have 100.
That’s why I want stock to reduce when we actually ship, when it’s physically leaving the building. Makes a lot more sense to me.
Also better in certain drop-ship scenarios where you don’t have stock in the first place.
did anyone find a solution for this? If I could find in the code where it subtracts from the quantity I could make a class to extend the Shipping behaviour to reduce the stock, however that’s the hard part finding that code and see if anything else should be done besides just reducing the quantity by 1 because magento is so complex!
Did anyone solve this?
I\’d love to have the option of subtracting stock when shipped, or invoiced.
subtracting stock when a sales order is created is simply bad accounting.
a better functionality would be to choose which change of order status will trigger a decrease in stock, instead of the current \"on/off on new order\”
