I thought this feature would be implemented smoothly. I worked the whole day on it and I'm still not done. This will occupy me tomorrow till the end of the day.

• At what point in the checkout must the stock quantity of a product be decremented?
  
• Can a customer add a product to the cart if the stock quantity reached 0?
  
• What happens if a product gets sold out during a customers checkout?
  
• What happens if a customers tries to add a product in higher quantity than there is in stock?
  
• May stock quantities of a product have negative values?
  

These are only some questions I have to find an answer to.
My head is smoking. Luckily I have to leave to pick up my children. I hope I won't dream about this feature this night ;)

Hi,
Thanks for working hard on this.

for mine and most small shopping needs I think the 1st and 4th point are the essential features.

point 2, ("we will ship your product when it becomes available/when we get more in stock") is not necessary for me personally.
the same with 3 - which is unlikely to happen for me during the short time it takes to checkout.

thanks,

Hi bit99,
I am almost finished with this feature. I did a pear programming session today with Sascha to have a second opinion and his knowledge of the checkout process.
Stock management can be switched on by setting a checkbox in the config object. With another checkbox you can make the stock quantities of products overbookable, means they can reach negative values. You can also set a single product to be overbookable. Is overbookable the right term?
Some of the notifications for the customer still do not work. This may occupy me for tomorrow.
This feature will definitely be in SIlverCart 1.1 which will be released by the end of July.

thats great!

cant wait to check it out

thanks,

Hello bit99,

the feature is impemented. I even wrote the docu for it:
http://www.silvercart.org/documentation/userbase/the-silvercart-handbook/stock-management/

Cheers,

Roland

great, thanks!

I cant wait to check it out in 1.1.
looking at the link you sent it looks really good.