ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Inventory Conundrum https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:58:54 +0000 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:34:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=973 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Inventory Conundrum : Awesome, thanks for the pointer...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/inventory-conundrum_topic973_post2793.html#2793 Author: rotokirby
Subject: 973
Posted: 19-July-2007 at 2:34pm

Awesome, thanks for the pointer in the right direction.

I'm afraid I'm no where near a good enough coder to actually make the
change, but I at least have hope now.]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:34:28 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/inventory-conundrum_topic973_post2793.html#2793 <![CDATA[Inventory Conundrum : The problem is that you obviously...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/inventory-conundrum_topic973_post2792.html#2792 Author: ProductCart
Subject: 973
Posted: 19-July-2007 at 2:22pm

The problem is that you obviously need an item that has been added to the cart to become available again if that customer leaves without purchasing.

To do that, you need a way to trigger that event (inventory update) when the customer leaves. This is something that can be done rather easily using global.asa. We don't use global.asa to avoid conflicts with other applications, but you certainly can.

Here is a good article on using global.asa
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_globalasa.asp

We hope this helps!

]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:22:01 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/inventory-conundrum_topic973_post2792.html#2792 <![CDATA[Inventory Conundrum : I&#039;ve been actively setting...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/inventory-conundrum_topic973_post2789.html#2789 Author: rotokirby
Subject: 973
Posted: 19-July-2007 at 10:07am

I've been actively setting up and tweaking our ProductCart install for a few
months now, and I'm at a point where I'm pretty happy with it except for
one issue I thought I could overlook, but can't...inventory tracking.

What we need, ideally, is for inventory to be tracked from the moment a
customer adds an item to their cart...so inventory totals would be debited
when the item is placed in the cart, not at checkout. We deal in limited
items and I'm trying to avoid a scenario where we lose sales because
people are rushing to get to checkout with a high demand item and don't
feel they have time to browse and purchase other items.

Anyone have a solution for this, custom development or otherwise?

I would hate to have to leave ProductCart behind because of this issue as
I've found it very fitting for our needs in so many other ways.]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:07:24 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/inventory-conundrum_topic973_post2789.html#2789