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Future Stock - Multi Stock

boldclimbing

Hi, we are exploring wether ATUM would work for our business. Could you tell us if ATUM free or one of its Plugins would be able to manage a current/main stock AND a future stock. By future stock I mean the current stock plus stock that will be coming in within a certain time frame OR incoming stock that we specify should be in the future stock. We need something like this so that we can display to our customers what we currently have in stock and what will be coming into stock in the next 6 weeks. Ideally the customer would be able to order from what we currently have in stock or from our future stock.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Iryna

Hello boldclimbing

Thanks for reaching out.

With ATUM Multi-Inventory add-on you can create as many inventory records per product as you need. You can allow your customers to select from which inventory they would like to make an order.

Although, Multi-Inventory doesn’t have the option that specifies “future stock”.

However, what you can do is create an inventory that allows backorders, so the customer can order the product from this inventory.

The backorders indicator will display the number of items required by customers in your Stock Central.

Please, note that the backorders will be shown in the Stock Negatives in your Stock Central, and you can easily view the products that are with this status.

So, the customer can make an order from the inventory that IS in stock, and from the one that allows the backorder (with zero stock).

I’ll leave you here the documentation about how Multi-Inventory works.

Also, here you can try a demo version of Multi-Inventory to try it and see if it suits your business.

Best regards,
Iryna

boldclimbing

Hi Iryna,

Thank you for the quick reply and info. This is very helpful.

I have a couple more questions:

Is it possible to have the two inventories linked because the future inventory is the main/current stock plus the incoming stock. So if a customer orders from the current stock the order would be taken out of the current stock and the future stock. And if the customer orders from the future stock the order would also be taken from the current and future stock. Does that make sense?
Is it possible to choose which stock the order or a partial order is coming from on the backend? We want to keep things simple for our customers and would prefer for them to not have to choose which stock it is coming from. We would just display the two different stocks so they can see their options and then after the order is inputted we would like to manually say where the order is getting taken from.

I guess now that I'm thinking about it a bit more it's possible that all the orders could be taken from the current stock, but the current stock would just show negatives (on the backend) for anything taken from the future stock until the stock arrives to our warehouse and is moved over to current stock.

I hope that all makes sense.

Iryna

Hi boldclimbing

Is it possible to have the two inventories linked because the future inventory is the main/current stock plus the incoming stock. So if a customer orders from the current stock the order would be taken out of the current stock and the future stock. And if the customer orders from the future stock the order would also be taken from the current and future stock. Does that make sense?

If I understand you correctly, you’d like to have, for example:

The main inventory
The inventory that allows backorders.

Is that right? If so, no matter from which inventory the customer makes an order – you can select from which inventory to take a product.

You can also set a priority of selling, to be able to organize the inventories as you want. So, the order you have set for the inventories permits the system to determine where the stock is taken from.
I’ll leave you here the tutorial about Inventory Sorting Mode Options that might be useful.

Is it possible to choose which stock the order or a partial order is coming from on the backend? We want to keep things simple for our customers and would prefer for them to not have to choose which stock it is coming from. We would just display the two different stocks so they can see their options and then after the order is inputted we would like to manually say where the order is getting taken from.

You can easily add the inventories for the order manually, so it allows you to select from which inventory you wish to take a product.

I guess now that I'm thinking about it a bit more it's possible that all the orders could be taken from the current stock, but the current stock would just show negatives (on the backend) for anything taken from the future stock until the stock arrives to our warehouse and is moved over to current stock.

Please, note that the negative stock should be set for secondary inventory because if you set the Main Inventory with backorders allowed, it will never pass to any of your inventories.

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Iryna