Best Before has the ability to enable stock or inventory management for your store. Let’s say you have 10 pieces of the product and you don’t want to receive after orders are placed for 10 units. If you enable stock management and enter 10 in the quantity field, then after 10 units are ordered, this product will show a message that all the quantities are sold and there is no stock.
- To use this feature in your Best Before store, go to the Product Edit page and scroll down ot the Inventory section
- Click the check box for Enable Product Stock Management
- Enter a product SKU (Stock Keeping Unit – should be a unique set of characters which will not match to any other product.)
- Select a Stock Status – in stock, out of stock , back order
- Enter a Stock Quantity and low stock threshold
- Choose if you wish to allow backorders by selecting an option from the drop down list
- Choose if you wish to allow only one quantity of this product to be bought in a single order
- When you are done, scroll down and select Save Product
