Enable customers to filter out products that are not currently in-stock via the product filter
When a customer wishes to the use the product filter. It throws up a set of results which qualify for the attributes they wish. However if their requirement is also time sensitive (for example they need it arriving within a reasonable 1-3 days) and have 0 interest in placing a back-order for an out of stock product. There is no means by which the product filter can account for this for them. Therefore there should be an additional option in the filter that only returns results of items of qualifying variants that are actually in-stock (and therefore capable of meeting their timely requirements) and linked to the existing stock figure in the system.
For example on our website, if I am a customer looking for a Horse rug, of the Weatherbeeta brand, and it has to be in a 5 ft as per the size of my horse's length. This narrows the results from 128 down to 50 but not in stock - the links explain it!
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Comments: 7
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17 Nov, '20
DougActually what may likely be better is if WE could filter out products.. ( when temp not in Stock) ... by default then the customer would not see them either!.. Had this with Magento. I could create a Produce a Product with eg 10 variables ( eg hat with sizes) - But could HIDE whatever variables items not in stock.
Massively helpful as then when ever restocked could just add back in, rather than have to delete product if done wish the customer see it )(when out of stock) . -
07 Jul, '21
Vince SullyDoug - this is an option you can hide an out of stock product but still allow direct access (so it doesn't affect your rankings and potential customers can sign up for back in stock alerts)
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05 Aug, '21
DougRebecca - The product is not out of Stock- merely some variants. I dont want to hide the product only the varients (eg specific sizes) that are not available.
It WASTES people time haveing to look at every product ( after filtering!) to see if the size they want is in stock. Putting that cart before the horse and still failing, And there fore has detremental view of our product as they cannot find them avaialble.
People filter to see if it is available! not is you happen so have an option of it 0- ut sorry it is not in stock.
The initial suggestion tries to allow the customer to "filter out" not available aftering selection filter - double filtering!
My sugestion is to avoid it in first place by not showing them as active variables. Magento did this why can not EKM?
That is why the present FILTER process is falwed, is it not filtering more acting like a search - email me and can send you a pic of what i mean, cannot add on this board. -
01 Mar, '22
Kit Wong MergedCurrently the filters don't work well for items which are in stock or out of stock on a sizing variant.
For example if you filter size 'Medium', it will currently show all items which contain 'Medium' variant sizing.
This is useless for customers if those items are out of stock. It should only show items which are in stock or at least show all the items but have the out of stock items greyed out or something.
This will allow customers to instantly view all items in a certain category which are in stock and in their size đź‘Ť -
08 Mar, '22
Eve Bolan Admin"Filter development for 'sizing' and out of stock items." (suggested by Kit Wong on 2022-03-01), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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12 Apr, '22
DougStill hoping it will be Implemented soon... as hitting busy season and people need to see what real "stock" is available, not is i merely just have it as a variable ....
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25 Nov, '22
HayleyI agree as I use this function on other websites a lot when shopping myself. If I'm in need of a size M I don’t want to see the product that are out of stock I want to filter those about, the variants in stock in size S or L are no use to me - this would be an excellent tool if built into EKM