Hi,
I am setting up an online store where I am selling drink bottles, thee bottles come in different colours and different lid options.
I have set up products for each colour and added a variant to each product for the customer to choose the lid type. What I am struggling with is how do I manage inventory of the lids as these three lid types are available across all colours.
What I am wanting is a way to have my products separated by colour and my lids separated by variants however have my lid inventory pulling from a pool of lids and not having to assign a specific amount of lids to each colour.
Does anyone know how this is done?
I have tried a bunch of bundle apps and none of them seem to do this.
Thanks
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Hi
This is a common issue for our users where they have 1 product inventory but it is on multiple variants/products and once sells they want all linked products to have stock adjusted.
What you do is use a backend driven app like ours to link all the component SKUs for each variation. In your case you would have a unique SKU for each lid design that is then linked to each variation along with the bottle SKU. You may need to have a separate product that contains the bottle SKUs as each variation would contain both the lid SKU and the bottle SKU.
The app has 2 main features that helps you manage inventory levels.
1. Inventory Management
Lets you connect up your products/variants to components and it then updates the inventory based on the component stock level. So when one component stock goes to zero the other linked products will also update to zero.
2. Order Fulfilment
When you sell one of these products the stock level won’t reduce automatically. What we do is update the order post purchase by replacing the order line with the component SKUs as order lines which then reduces their stock. This then feeds into point 1 above where it updates all linked products.
If you need help in setting up and testing please get in touch. You can also find our guide here:
https://help.channelup.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/900004620086
Regards
Sam
Hi @Chilinz
It would be great if you can give a reference on another store.