It's not like a super market, because people in a supermarket and see how many items are left and decide if they really wanted it or not. What you are doing is allowing someone is merely browsing to take inventory from you and hold it. So someone who really does want to purchase it can't. You should just give them what they want, then take it out at the time of purchase, if there is none left good for you because it's popular, chances are if they want it, they will process it all the way through. The only place I know of that gives you the product temporarily is ticket master, and they have to because a lot of people at one time try to buy tickets, so they need to be able to have time to fill out the form.
Robert Everland III Dixon Ticonderoga Web Developer Extraordinaire -----Original Message----- From: stas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Dealing with inventories Yes, that's what I'm doing - allocating the inventory when the item is added. Otherwise, IMO, it's like running around in the supermarket and taking things from one shopper's card and giving the items to the another one :DO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Are you saying that you're allocating inventory to that person when they put the item in their shopping cart (meaning it's no longer available for sale)? What I do is check inventory before it's placed in the cart to make sure there's adequate inventory, then I ignore it... When the order is to be placed, I re-check all the inventory and if anything is short I bounce them back to the cart with a message about what is no longer available... ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
