Not sure I understand what you mean. Could you describe what you are referring to by “inventory status selections”?
If you want options on the front-end for customers to choose when adding a product to their cart, then you can use variable products: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/
Greetings.
A variable product is a possible work around, but what I’m after is a little different.
Most of what I produce (furniture) is built to order. When I set up a product, in the product meta data window in the “inventory” section my only choices are “in stock” and “out of stock”. I’d like to add a third, “special order” or something similar. This way the customers don’t get turned away thinking the product is unavailable. I retain the “click to buy” type of interface I’m hoping to use. Short of that choice , if I could have no status show, yet still have an “add to cart” with all of it’s pricing etc that would work too.
Thanks.
Have you considered disabling inventory control under **WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory** and the simply hiding the stock status with custom CSS?
That certainly could work, but would it also remove the “in stock” option for items that I do have in stock?
Thx.
Yep, it would also remove that. I have an idea though.
Keep stock enabled, and allow for “backorders”: http://cld.wthms.co/17y0U/61khleun. When the stock is 0, a message like this will show up if you have it set to allow but notify backorders: http://cld.wthms.co/uFUE/56aV9yUz
Then you can just change this text string to say “Special orders available”, or something like that.
Yes, using a backorder feature is a viable possibility . My only feeling is that when people are shopping you don’t want anything discouraging a purchase. Seeing something “out of stock” might be enough to get them to not read any further.
I may look for another shopping cart sort of plug in that doesn’t have inventory at all for the custom order items ( or us the suggestion above) on a separate page , and then use the regular shopping page for “in stock” items.
Still trying different strategies. Site is offline (localhost) while I experiment otherwise I’d share links. Meanwhile my current site is here to give an idea of the products.
http://www.charlesfreeborn.com
Using a completely different shopping cart for just a few products would probably not be wise and far overkill. Why not just disable inventory on the select few products if that is what you are looking for?
I agree. Too confusing. I’m not finding a way to turn off shopping cart for individual products. Is that a bit of CSS code? Or is it possible to change the “Out of stock” text line to say “custom order” in the inventory status choices? Sorry for the rookie questions – I’m a much better furniture maker than web master…
If Manage Stock is checked under WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory, then the Manage Stock checkbox under the Inventory tab under a product can be unchecked and the stock notices will not display for the product.
Reviving this on account of new requirements.
So the above “Manage Stock” is getting close to what I want to do. No buttons appear as long as I don’t put a number in the price field. That’s okay – I can address that in the text field.
If I can add a button that goes straight to my contact form I’ll be golden.
Can that be done ?
Any thoughts on this? Anyone?
I’ve found a site that allows adding a custom button, but it’s global – I need to control this product by product. I’ve tried adding a link (to contact page) to the description box(es) but can’t get them to work.
