yeah abandonment of carts is really high.. has anyone built in any tracking to figure out in their cart what the level of allocation vs. abandonment is for their specific cart?
without looking at your own real rates, one is suspect to make business choices that might not fit your need... I wouldn't deallocate in this scenario until the credit validation portion.. and if something isn't in stock say hey! no more product... we can special order or something... -paris -----Original Message----- From: Tony Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Dealing with inventories But when a shopping cart is abandoned (which is often), you've got inventory allocated that you can't sell for however long you wait to clean up... In my case, we often have small quantities of titles, so I can't afford to do that... > 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
