Prestashop stock inventory setup

The first thing to decide when setting up stock management is whether you actually want Prestashop to ‘manage’ your stock levels at all. It is possible to completely disable this function. If you do want it to manage your stock levels however you must have ‘real’ stock numbers assigned to each product.

The switches associated with stock management can be found under admin/preferences/products.

• If you do not want Prestashop to manage your inventory simply set Enable Stock Management to ‘no’. The result will be that Prestashop will not check stock numbers in order to decide whether a product can be ordered or not.
• If you want Prestashop to have a measure of control over an item’s availability for purchase the following options on the same page apply:

Allow ordering out of stock products – only set to ‘yes’ if you get regular top up orders. In other words if the potential delay to the customer will be minimal. Setting this to ‘yes’ when considerable re-ordering delays could be reasonably expected will only cost you sales.

Display quantity on product page – optional

Display pre-tax price on product page – within Australia this should be set to ‘no’ when dealing with a retail customer base. If your market is the wholesale trade then you could set it to ‘yes’

Display unavailable product attributes on product page – in general it is probably best to set this to ‘no’ as a customer will then be more likely to choose from the available options rather than wait on something that is not in stock.

Display last quantities when quantity is lower than – setting this to 1 or 2 can be a good way to encourage immediate purchases. I wouldn’t use this option if you only have 1 of virtually everything in the shop though . . . that’s not a good look.

Number of days in which the product is considered new – the result is used to select items that display in the new items module. The actual number will vary widely for different product ranges. For example new CDs may be released every week, but new BMWs only once a year. Adjust to suit your product range.

See also:

• Prestashop attributes (options)
• Setting stock levels in Prestashop when using attribute
• Prestashop quick start guide
• Prestashop image preparation and upload

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