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Enter 'Items' area
Open the editor, click on Basket, and enter the Items section.
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How do I manage an item's stock?
In this article, we will go through how you can manage stock for an individual item in your ecommerce website.
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You can easily manage stock levels for every single item. This gives you complete control over your ecommerce website and allows customers to receive important information about your items. The process of managing stock is very simple. Knowing how to edit and keep on top of stock levels across all items is a prerequisite for any ecommerce website - especially if you have a high number of items that are being regularly shipped to customers.
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Showing users where to access the stock management area inside 'Settings'. Talking through several key rules about stock management. Running through the 'Allow Stock Management?' and 'Show Item Stock Levels?' buttons. Explaining why some users may want to allow sales after stock reaches zero. Demonstrating how one would search for an item inside stock management area. Talking users through the history table for a given item. Visiting the item page to demonstrate that users can manage the item's stock from both the stock management area and the 'Update item' section.
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Select an item
Select an item by clicking on the blue Edit button.
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Locate the stock area
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Manage stock
If you want to manage stock for this item, make sure that Yes has been selected for this option.
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Allowing sales with zero stock
You would only select Yes on the Allow sales with zero stock? option if you had additional quantities of stock for this item that were not accounted for by the system.
If all your stock for this item is recorded on this system, select No on this option - otherwise customers will be able to make purchases for items that may be out of stock.
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Update stock levels
Type in an exact figure or use the arrows to enter this item's latest stock level.
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Managing stock through variants
You may have different versions of an item. For example, a dress that comes in size 6, 8, 10, and so on.
In this case, open up the Variants section and use the first variant option to give a unique stock level for each variation of this particular item, as opposed to just managing stock for the item as a whole.
Read this article for a full breakdown on how to make use of stock variants.
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Enter 'Settings' area
Click on Basket and select the Settings option.
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Enter 'Stock' section
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Manage site-wide settings
Use this top section to choose:
- Whether to manage stock on your website
- Whether to show item stock levels to customers
- Whether to receive a message when stock for an item reaches zero
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Type in item
Use this section to type in the name of a particular item whose stock you want to edit.
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One stock value for this item
If you are NOT managing stock for an item's individual variants but rather stock for the item as a whole, you will see the fields above are not editable. If you have no variants for this item, these fields will not be there.
All you can edit, in this case, is the overall stock level for that item.
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Stock change history table
Each time the stock level of an item changes, we record that change and show you a list of the most recent changes in this table, enabling you to see when you manually added stock or what quantities were sold.
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