Inventory tracking per product options

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Inventory tracking per product options

Postby Andyk318 » Mon May 12, 2008 7:02 pm

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way we can track our inventory by product colors? We do not want to have to add a new product just for each different color. I believe what I'm talking about is a product matrix. This seems like it should be such a basic function of any shopping cart and not having this functionality is a big pain.


Any help would be much appreciated.


Thanks.
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Postby Jim » Mon May 12, 2008 7:29 pm

ShopSite currently does not support inventory tracking at the option level. If you need it at that level then you will need to have a product for each option.
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Postby ashubert » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:49 am

Agreed. I am trying to sell shoes and cannot create a new product for every size. I would have 5000 skus. Shopsite should have master skus with sub-skus for options.

I requested this over 4 years ago.
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Postby Jim » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:53 pm

Just wondering, when you order your shoes from the manufacturer to they have individual part numbers for each color, style and size?
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Postby FlaGatorMan » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:54 pm

I agree...

We want to start selling clothes and shoes, but would need to have a sku for every size/color which would be impossible to manage at that level.

Will have to continue looking for a package that will handle it.

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Postby ashubert » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:05 pm

Hi, Jim,

shoes seem to have their own sku for each size. I have seen varying many methods for assigning skus, typically the size appears in the like 80 for a size 8 and 85 for 8 1/2, etc.

So a style 0733 in a size 8 M would be

073380M
073385W (8 1/2 wide)

Etc.
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Postby dlundell » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:13 pm

ashubert wrote:Agreed. I am trying to sell shoes and cannot create a new product for every size. I would have 5000 skus. Shopsite should have master skus with sub-skus for options.

I requested this over 4 years ago.


We've been asking for it for years as well.

It's a huge headache for inventory management (particularly for apparel; even worse for shoes). We resort to setting quantity to 1, and manually managing the menu options.

As we grow, Shopsite becomes less tenable for us for this one reason.

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