Product stock management

[sdussaut]

Hi there!

I am running into a problem I am unsure how to solve and would be glad to have your insight on how to approach it.

On my website, I will have products with limited stock (so I use the stock field in the blueprint). I would like these products to also be available for purchase even without stock, a sort of "order item" functionality.

It seems that Simple Commerce is preventing me from adding to the cart a product without stock.
Is there any way to achieve this?

I really need the differentiation between the two states:

• product bought while in stock
• product ordered because out of stock

How would you approach this problem?

Thanks!

[duncanmcclean]

If you want to allow customers to purchase out-of-stock products, you probably need to add your own stock/inventory field, and keep it maintained manually using events, rather than using the built-in stock functionality.

[sdussaut]

I'll look into it, thank you!