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| Availability type | Date range | Behaviour |
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| Standard | available from < now < available to | Product must have enough items in stock for the order to be placed. | Warning |
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| Standard products that are fully out of stock will not appear in frontend. Multi SKU products that has at least one SKU in stock are considered in stock |
| Tip |
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| If you require behaviour for not allowing to buy out of stock items but still show them in searches use Back order with ProductAvailabilityStrategyBackorderInStockOnly configuration enabled for shop that requires this behaviour |
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| Always | available from < now < available to | Stock is completely ignored. This type is used for digital products or when inventory management is not important (i.e. there is always more than enough) |
| Showroom | available from < now < available to | Cannot be purchased. These products are for customers to have a look and read about. Showroom items are usually prototypes, or could be items that will be soon available (e.g. fashion collection for next season). This type of product is more for raising interest and advertisement purposes |
| Back order | available from < now < available to | Products that can be purchased even if there is not enough items in stock. The assumption is that the shop can re-stock and fulfil the order | Tip |
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| If you require behaviour for not allowing to buy out of stock items but still show them in searches enable ProductAvailabilityStrategyBackorderInStockOnly configuration for shop that requires this behaviour |
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| now < available to | Products that have not yet been released. The assumption is that the shop can re-stock and fulfil the orders after product release date.
| Warning |
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| Orders with pre-ordered items are kept in 'in progress' state until release date has passed at which point they are treated as back orders. |
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Release
is release date for products on pre-order. In earlier versions this was controlled via "Pre-order" availability, which reverted to "Back-order" mode after release date. Now availability can be set independently and release date in the future results in "Pre-order" products. Orders with pre-ordered items are kept in 'in progress' state until release date has passed at which point they are treated in accordance to availability mode.
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