* Leon Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Apr 21 12:13pm]:
> small and medium, but not large. And a blue shirt might come in
> medium and large. If you create one sku for the shirt and click
> off red/blue and s/m/l, you can get people buying stuff that
> doesn't actually exist. MS site server handles this by giving the
> user an error message! With FreeTrade, I suggest making two SKUs,
> one for the red shirt and one for the blue shirt. Then you just
> click off the sizes that apply. If there's three variables, it's
> starts to get crowded...but we haven't encountered that situation
> yet. Has anyone else?
>
> I feel fairly strongly that the existing system can handle almost
> any set-up you can imagine, but sometimes it takes talking to me
> because I understand it better than anyone else.
I'm working on a cart site for an apparel mfg and am running into the
same issues. I was considering one sku for each style (sport shirt),
but then ran into the issue of the inventory is at the
style-color-size combination. Meaning I don't have 30 sport shirts in
stock, I have 15 sport shirt-red-small and 15 sport shirt-blue-medium.
If I store a single sku in FreeTrade that is sport shirt, I can't
manage inventory at the proper level and I risk showing customers
something as in-stock that really isn't. I'm currently going down the
path of each style-color-size is it's own sku. I'll then modify the
Store, Quick Order, and other pages that display item information to
customers to give in-stock color size combinations in a drop-down list
box.
I'm also still pondering how to handle prices, since supposedly my
client says the price is the same for all size-color combos under a
style...
If anyone has any thoughts on better approaches to this, please send
them my way.
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Padraic Renaghan /pad-rik ren-a-han/
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