I would like to be able for customers to see a total sold product count on store somehow.
Most of the apps for sold count are applicable to the specific product pages only. But we are resellers, and we only sell single products. When that specific product is gone, we won’t have it ever again necessarily (unless we happen upon that one again in our purchases). So specific product sold count apps are of no help (kind of like specific product review apps - we would prefer to find on that will allow us to display the reviews as a list on a single review page, but not on specific product pages, as there will always only be a single version of a product at any given time). Any ideas on publicly displaying sold count? To build trust with new customers that the store is actually selling product.
If the inventory is predefined only once use a metafield definition to enter the starting inventory-quantity then use a custom-liquid setting or block to display the difference to current inventory with some liquid logic in the theme visual editor.
Or customize the theme directly.
If you need it automatic you’d need to use an automation app, a scriptable app like mechanic or try to create the task shopify’s free flow app.
Mechanic example https://tasks.mechanic.dev/sync-inventory-levels-to-variant-metafields it would need a logic change to set an initial value and or count up, etc.
For flow you’d use either the product created(product-added-to-store) or the product-variant-inventory-quantity-change triggers to update the metafield.
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-flow/reference/triggers/product-added-to-store
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-flow/reference/triggers/product-variant-inventory-quantity-changed
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