Stock and "availability" message

[chubster]

Is it possible to have the "availability" message only show on products that are discontinued ?

[Dave]

Can you expand a bit more on exactly what you want to show for in stock, out of stock and discontinued products please?

[chubster]

Hi Dave....Basically I want no message to show at all if an item is in stock but if I set an item to discontinued I want a message to say so....Been having a play and I dont think i can.

[Adam]

In language manager under Product...

Product :: Availability :: In Stock (place text here)
Product :: Availability :: Discontinued (you can put text here.)

[Dave]

If you go into site-->configuration-->product you can select "Quantity In Stock Display" to be none. So basically regardless of stock level and status it will not display ANYTHING

For your discontinued products I would then suggest you use the additional content box to display your own discontinued message. Anything entered in the additional content box will appear either above or below the product price, options and attributes depending on how your page is configured.

This is the only I can think of doing it.

[chubster]

Aha...That sounds like it could work.....I will go give it a go. Many thanks Dave

[pinkypie]

I have changed mine in the language manager, with mine, if it is in stock it means it has been discontinued and I can no longer get the item so it says 'In stock - delivery 1-4 working days'. You could put 'In stock - discontinued item'.

If something is not in stock but available to order I use SPO in the Qty and have changed it to 'Available to order, dispatch in 5-10 working days'.

If the item is something you have in stock continuously but have no set qty, you could do what I have done on another range, set the Quantity to 0 and change the 'No Stock' message to In Stock.

I appreciate everyone does this differently but this seems to work for me.

[A Party Shop]

I've followed Dave's instructions...no problem.

I've still got a text message on the product page i'd like to get rid of;
"Notify me when this item is available"

Any ideas?

[Dave]

Hi,

Welcome to Bluepark & the Forum.

Go into site-->configuration-->product and untick Item Availability Notifications

[A Party Shop]

Thank you Dave.

(Apologies for the 'late' thanks, I hadn't set-up my notifications correctly)