Custom Stock Status: Magento Extension by Amasty. User Guide.
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This document provides instructions for using the Custom Stock Status Magento extension. It allows creating custom stock statuses and icons, setting quantity-based status ranges, applying statuses to products, and displaying statuses on the front-end. Admins can configure automatic status changes based on quantity, show/hide default statuses, and use product attributes in custom statuses. The extension also enables stock notifications for out-of-stock configurable options.
Custom Stock Status: Magento Extension by Amasty. User Guide.
- 1. Custom Stock Status Magento Extension User Guide Official extension page: Custom Stock Status User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 1
- 2. Table of contents: 1. Creation of custom stock statuses ...……………………………………….. 3 2. Upload of icons for custom stock statuses …..………………………….. 5 3. Setup of quantity ranges for statuses ..………..………………………….. 6 4. Rules for quantity ranges ……………………………………………………… 7 5. How to manage stock statuses for a product .………………………….. 8 6. How to apply quantity-based statuses ……………………………………. 9 7. Custom Stock Status settings ..…..……...………………………………….. 10 8. Examples of custom stock statuses on front end ……………………… 12 9. ‘Stock’ subscription for options of configurable products .………… 13 10. Usage of ‘Text field’ and ‘Date’ attributes in statuses .…….……….. 14 User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 2
- 3. 1. Creation of custom stock statuses Please login to admin cp, browse to Catalog – Attributes – Manage Attributes. Then find Custom Stock Status attribute and click on it to edit it. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 3
- 4. 1. Creation of custom stock statuses Create the necessary options for the custom stock attribute. IMPORTANT. If you would like to display current product quantity in some stock status, use {qty} variable, for example: Hurry up! Only {qty} left in stock! User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 4
- 5. 2. Upload of icons for custom stock statuses Once you’ve browsed icons for the stock statuses, please click “Update Icons” button, otherwise the icons won’t get uploaded. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 5
- 6. 3. Setup of quantity ranges for statuses If you would like the statuses to change automatically based on how many items of a product are left in the inventory, please create quantity ranges and assign the necessary statuses to the ranges. If you choose to use range based stock statuses when editing a product, the stock status will change automatically once the product quantity changes. You can also see Stock Status Rule column. With its help you can specify different quantity levels for the same statuses for different groups of products. E.g. you can show the same status 'Running out' for Product A, when it has quantity from 1 to 5 and for Product B, when it has quantity from 1 to 100. This is explained in more details further on. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 6
- 7. 4. Rules for quantity ranges Please go to Catalog -> Attributes -> Manage Attributes and open attribute called "Custom Stock Status Qty Rule". At the ‘Manage Label / Options’ tab please create one rule for each product group, for which you will use different levels of stock. E.g. ‘first_rule’ for shirts and ‘second_rule’ for phones. You need just to specify rule name at this page. Once you have created the rules here, please go to ‘Quantity Range Statuses’ and specify ranges for each rule. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 7
- 8. 5. How to manage stock statuses for a product Go to edit the product (s), for which you need to use the custom stock status and choose the appropriate status at the General tab. To display the custom status instead of the default one, choose ‘Yes’ for the ‘Hide Default Stock Status’. To display the custom status together with the default one, choose No for the Hide Default Stock Status. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 8
- 9. 6. How to apply quantity-based statuses If quantity based statuses are used, the status will change based on available quantity. If there’s no such range (e.g. you have 1000 items and the biggest range is 50-100), manually indicated status will be displayed. Use "Custom Stock Status Qty Rule" setting to choose which quantity rule should apply to this product. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 9
- 10. 7. Custom Stock Status settings It is possible to display custom stock statuses only for “out of stock” products. To enable this mode, please go to System > Configuration > Catalog > Custom Stock Status, change ‘No’ to ‘Yes’ and click “Save Config” button. If you would like to use only automatic, range based statuses, set this option to “Yes”. To display only icons for stock statuses (without text), set this option to “Yes”. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 10
- 11. 7. Custom Stock Status settings Set to ‘Yes’ to show Out of Stock attributes for configurable products . Such attributes will be displayed with no possibility to purchase. Use ‘Status Icon Title Text’ field to specify the text that will be displayed when customers hover mouse over a status icon (you can leave it empty). User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 11
- 12. 8. Examples of custom stock statuses on front end The extension lets you display out of stock configurable options as well (add to cart button will not be displayed, when they are chosen). Also for “out of stock” configurations stock statuses are displayed right in the dropdown (both standard and custom statuses). The custom status is displayed next to the default one (or instead of it – configured by admin). For configurable products the custom status is displayed above the Add to Cart button. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 12
- 13. 9. Subscription for options of configurable products Customers now can sign up to get notified when ‘out of stock’ options of configurable products arrive back in stock. This feature works only in enable alerts in the configuration section (admin panel -> System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Product Alerts). User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 13
- 14. 10. ‘Text field’ and ‘Date’ attributes in statuses You can use any ‘Text field’ and ‘Date’ product attributes in custom stock statuses. To do this please add code of the attribute to the status like this: Back in stock on {eta} On front end the code will be replaced with the attribute value for this product. User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 14
- 15. Thank you! Should you have any questions or feature suggestions, please contact us at: http://amasty.com/support.html Your feedback is absolutely welcome! User Guide: Custom Stock Status Support: http://amasty.com/support.html Page 15