Show Stock Availability on Shopping Cart Page (15)

Amy Gardner

• August 21, 2011 16:09

We often mark items as "Pre-Order" and "Back-Order" when we run out of stock and are planning to get the item back in stock soon. These items can still be put in the cart and ordered. Therefore customers often overlook the stock status on the product details page and think that if a product is in their cart and can be purchased, its immediately available to ship. If the stock status / availability showed up on the shopping cart page, it would draw more attention to whether the item is currently in-stock and ready to ship or not.

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  Edward Sturrock

  • May 13, 2013 10:17

  I had someone test locally with ##PRODUCTSTATUS## and it shows on shopping cart, you can add this merge in and it should show the status you need.
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  Amy Gardner

  • May 11, 2013 20:56

  This is becoming an increasingly time-consuming issue for us. We really need the stock status of the product to show up on the Shopping Cart Page. Is anyone else having similar issues with this problem? If so, how do you handle it?

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  Jeff Owens

  • June 01, 2015 06:45

  Edward ... we also tried using ##PRODUCTSTATUS## on the Shopping Cart page, but the merge does not work for variants as it should. We discovered that while this merge DOES WORK correctly on the Product Details page whenever you selected a variant (it shows that variant's availability status CORRECTLY as expected), it DOES NOT WORK on the Shopping Cart page. Instead, it shows only the availability status of the parent product -- NOT of the actual variant line item the customer added/displayed in the cart. Frustrating... This seems like a bug(ish) issue ... but regardless should really be a baseline feature of the cart system since it already partial works in the AC framework AND has a high value factor for us as storefront owners as per Amy's original post and follow-up. We're less encouraged by the timeframes in which Features get implemented via upvoting and would hope that this would be something AC could take on regardless and fix sooner than later considering it doesn't work as documented. Thanks for the consideration!

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  Jeff Owens

  • June 10, 2015 10:11

  Anyone have any comments / info on this as it says it is "Under Review" ...?

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  Amy Gardner

  • September 14, 2015 12:36

  This merge code ##PRODUCTSTATUS## does seem to work on the shopping cart page now. (I'm not sure about the variants issue mentioned below though.) Is there a merge code to get the product status to show up on the invoice, packing slip and customer emails too?

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